Nationwide French protests put pressure on Sarkozy

Source: Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Tuesday not to yield to mass street protests after teachers, postal workers and civil servants joined striking rail workers in demonstrations challenging his economic reform plans.

"We won't give in. We won't step back," Sarkozy said in a speech to French mayors that broke an unusually long public silence from the normally hyperactive president.

France's rail system has been crippled for a week by a strike over pensions, and the wave of protests has widened with a separate strike by civil servants over job reductions and the cost of living and student protests over university reforms.

The protests, the biggest since Sarkozy came to power in May pledging sweeping economic reforms, disrupted schools, trains, postal services and airports and saw hundreds of thousands join protest marches across France.



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asshole..you might compromise your freakshow fascism.

Nice shot of sarkozy.

borrowed a playbook from Rove on his recent trip to the US?

He said he was going to do this before he was elected.