The youth inter-union, for its part, claims 250,000 demonstrators in France on Saturday, including 75,000 in the capital. This total exceeds the nearly 146,000 people recorded by the Interior Ministry.
This decline is measured on two scales. Saturday's turnout is lower than Thursday's, and it is also down compared with the three previous Saturdays of social mobilization.
Even sticking solely to the authorities' tally, Thursday had therefore brought together 575,000 people, nearly four times Saturday's official figure. The union count of 1.6 million widens the gap between the two days still further.
On Thursday, the national day of action for wages and purchasing power, launched at the call of the inter-union, had brought together 575,000 people according to the authorities. The unions, for their part, put the number of participants at 1.6 million. Nearly 146,000 people marched in France on Saturday, November 7, according to the Interior Ministry. The country is recording a fourth consecutive weekend of social demonstrations, with mobilization on the decline.
According to this count by the youth inter-union, the capital accounts for nearly one-third of the demonstrators tallied, with the rest spread across the country. Neither this union figure nor the official tally reaches Thursday's level, nor that of the three previous Saturdays.