Significantly fewer protesters took part in recent rallies in France.

The dissatisfaction is again due to the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

The French Senate yesterday voted "for" the law.

The managers hope that it will be finally approved on Wednesday or Thursday.

It's not all over.

In the lower house of parliament, supporters of President Emmanuel Macron need strong support from their allies to muster enough votes to pass the law.

France's Senate backs Macron's pension reform

A new protest and strikes have been announced for Wednesday.

The previous wave of protests brought 1.3 million people to the streets.

Yesterday they were less than 400 thousand.

Raising the retirement age remains unpopular among the majority of French people, but recent polls show disaffected people have fallen from more than 60 percent to around 50 percent of citizens.

"I speak for the cleaners. We have a very difficult job. We have people who for 40 years get up at 5 or even 4 in the morning to finish before rush hour. It's very stressful. To work like this until the age of 64 is impossible," said Mohamed Beayu, director of the Ile-de-France Cleaners' Union.

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