French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon told tens of thousands of supporters Saturday that the battle against Emmanuel Macron’s labor reforms was not over, even though the president signed them into law.
Mélenchon claimed up to 150,000 people gathered in Paris to demonstrate against the new laws but local officials put the crowd at 30,000, Le Figaro reported.
The leader of the France Unbowed movement also called on his followers to bring casserole pots to another demonstration next Saturday “to make as much noise as possible.”
“They are stopping us from dreaming, so we will stop them from sleeping,” Mélenchon said.
“The battle hasn’t finished, it has just begun,” he declared.
Macron signed the labor reforms Friday, aiming to inject greater flexibility into the job market and kickstart hiring after decades of high unemployment.