Students are facing another big day of protest in the French state today

French student unions will hold numerous demonstrations this Tuesday protesting high school education conditions.

According to data from the Ministry of Education, 130 institutes were blocked yesterday, while last Friday there were 172, 86% less than when protests began on the outskirts of Paris on October 6. Protests spread throughout the state, including the French Basque Country, and the Bernat Etxepare High School in Bayonne has been blocked by students for more than a week.

The events ofthe last few days, with violent clashes between protesters and security forces, have alarmed society, which President Emmanuel Macron himself has described as "unacceptable" before calling for student demands to be made "calmly, in order and with respect for people and property."

Particularly serious were the clashes on Tuesday, when workers "unions joined student protests, and 450,000 people took to the streets, according to organizers.

Two days later, the number fell, from 130,000 to 71,000, but student unions hope to breathe in the protest on the eve of a week-long student holiday beginning at the end of the month.

They consider the measures announced so far by the government to be insufficient. The Government will allocate 3,000 additional teachers, who are beginning to reach the institutes to alleviate the lack of staff.

Some workers' unions, including teachers, have also joined the strike. Indeed, the staff cuts envisaged in the draft budget approved by the French Government for 2027 have been considered unacceptable .

Likewise, the student protest has become the central theme of the pre-campaign for the April/May presidential campaign.

Leftist candidate Jean-Luch Mélenchon has supported the high school student movement, which has earned him criticism from his opponents, who accuse him of embracing youth unrest and inciting violence.