The protests are against the worsening economic climate in France and at what people believe to be the government's poor handling of the crisis.(BBC News website)
Opposition Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry said people were out in the streets "to express what worries them: the fact that they work and yet cannot make ends meet, retired people who just can't make it [financially], the fear of redundancies, and a president of the Republic and a government that just don't want to change policy".
According to a 25 January poll by CSA-Opinion for Le Parisien, 69% of the French public backs the strike.
Thursday, 29 January 2009
The French Demonstration
Demonstrations over the handling of the economic crisis.
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