Three-day visit of King Charles to France due to mass protests and pension strikes.

The British monarch was due to start his three-day visit to France on Sunday. This will be his first official visit abroad as a monarch.

“Given yesterday’s announcement of another day of nationwide protests against pension reform on Tuesday, the visit of King Charles, originally scheduled for March 26-29, will be postponed,” Elysee said in a statement.

Accordingly, a British government spokesman said the visit had been postponed at the “request of French President Emmanuel Macron”.

Previously, trade union representatives had said they were “setting their sights” on the now aborted visit of Charles III.

“We will continue our mobilization (against the reform plan) and this visit will be in our sights,” Mathieu Aubry (General Confederation of Workers) and Yvan Faure of the Force Ouvriere trade union warned in an interview with the Sud-Ouest newspaper this week.

“It is almost certain that the king will not be able to take the tram to Bordeaux as he planned,” also predicted Pascal Mesguenot, the CFTC union representative at Transports Bordeaux Métropole (TBM).

Recall that yesterday, Thursday, a large number of people gathered in dozens of its cities. France in protest against the increase in the pension limit, with incidents occurring in Marseille, Rennes, Lyon, Paris and Bordeaux.