Photo: APThere are also protests in Prague because of the announced pension reform. Demonstrators demand the resignation of the Government. The Prime Minister says he does not know what the protest is about. The French have been on strike since January over the pension reform
The Czech Republic is currently the second European country to protest against their governments' proposals to raise the retirement age.
In France, these protests have been going on since January.
In Prague today, several thousand Czechs protested in front of the Czech government headquarters at the invitation of the KOVO trade union against retirement at the age of 68, instead of the current 64.
Pension at the age of 68 - NO. The resignation of Fijala's government - YES, is a big banner that workers and union activists from various parts of the Czech Republic brought to the government today.
"In some professions at Škoda, you cannot work until you are 60 years old." And we don't have less physically demanding jobs for those people. At this moment, we are turning people into social wretched people," said the head of the trade union at the Škoda car factory, Jaroslav Povšik, to the gathered protesters.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fijala said today that it is difficult to say why the workers and unions are protesting when there is still no ready proposal for reform and the government is discussing solutions with both the opposition and the unions.
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The French government estimated that around 740.000 people took part in yesterday's protests against the reform of the pension system across the country, while the CGT union claims that more than two million people took to the streets.
