Record numbers demonstrate against French pension reform plan

PARIS, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Some 1.28 million people protested across France on Tuesday against the government's pension reform plan, the French Ministry of the Interior said. This represented a record number since the nationwide mobilization began.

However, according to France's largest union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT in French), the estimated number of people marching nationally against the reforms stood much higher: at 3.5 million.