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    French pension-reform strikes hide deeper issue – distrust of politics

    Jan 09, 2020 3 minutes

    As hundreds of thousands of striking workers and their supporters took to the streets of France Thursday, demonstrating against government plans to reform the pension system, the authorities faced an even deeper problem.

    Behind the protests lies a wholesale disgust with politics and politicians that bodes ill for French democracy.

    Railway workers nationwide and public transport workers in the capital, Paris, have been on strike for five weeks to block President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plans. The longest such strike in 50 years has made life a misery for commuters and travelers, and polls have

    A system in under strainA gap in trust

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