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Thousands Rally against Pension Reform in Athens

Two Greek labor unions representing more than 2.5 million workers staged a protest in central Athens Saturday against a planned pension system reform.
Soaked in heavy rain, about 2,000 demonstrators marched in front of the parliament building, holding banners and chanting slogans against the reform and other austerity measures the government has introduced to overcome the country’s debt crisis.
Representatives of ADEDY and GSEE, the unions of public and private sector employees that organized the rally, warned of more protests if the government insists on the reform.
The unions are planning another general strike, the fifth this year, on the day that the pension reform bill will be voted on in the parliament.
Protesters oppose raising the minimum age for retirement to 65 and other changes in the pension system. But the government said that there is no other way to avoid a collapse of the system due to huge debts.
But Stathis Anestis, undersecretary of the GSEE, said Greeks “will not succumb to the provocative and unfair demands of our lenders from the EU and the IMF.”

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