Organisers had called for a “popular tide” of protest for the marches, which were called by 60 unions, political parties and associations angry at Macron’s political overhauls.
However, the turnout was well below previous similar marches.
In Paris, police reported just 21,000 protesters, while the CGT leftist union claimed 80,000 and a total of 250,000 throughout the country.
Occurrence, an independent monitoring group working for media outlets including AFP, said 31,700 demonstrated in the capital.
That compared with a police count of 40,000 and the CGT’s count of 100,000 for the last such protest in the French capital on May 5. CGT had claimed a national turnout of 323,000 on March 22.
Macron said Friday during a visit to Russia that the protests “won’t stop” his progress.
“I won’t preside in light of the polls or demonstrations, because we have done too much of…
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