PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy looked ever surer of victory for his flagship pension reform on Friday as more oil sector workers ended strikes and enthusiasm seemed to be waning for further protest marches.
Protesters have staged mass demonstrations across France in recent weeks and strikers have shut down refineries, but they failed to stop parliament from enacting the reforms, which raise the minimum retirement age for state pensions to 62 from 60.
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