Due to rising inflation around the world, thousands of people took to the streets in Paris
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Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest the rising inflation.
There has been an appeal for a general strike in France on Tuesday.
The strike of unions going on for weeks demanding higher wages in oil refineries.
Paris. There is an outcry all over the world due to rising inflation. In most European countries, including France, which is included in the rich countries of the world, people are also troubled due to the rising inflation. Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest the rising inflation. Because unions that have been on strike for weeks demanding higher wages at oil refineries had appealed for a general strike.
According to a report in the news agency Reuters, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing party La France Insoume (France Unboed), took part in the demonstration along with Anne Arnaux, the Nobel laureate for literature this year. He has appealed to the people to go on a general strike on Tuesday. He told the crowd that ‘You are going to live a week like no one else, we are the ones who started it with this march’. Melenchon has decided to support the four unions. Those who have appealed for strike and protest on Tuesday to increase the salary.
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The four unions have also called for protests to help protect the right to strike after the French government ordered some oil refinery workers to be requisitioned. Unions are seeing this move of the government as a violation of their constitutional rights. Whereas Budget Minister Gabriel Attal said that the Left organization is trying to take advantage of the current situation. Which is evident from the ongoing strikes at French nuclear plants and French oil refineries. Today’s protest is a march of those who want to stop the country.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : October 17, 2022, 05:45 IST
