Raining down are autographs. After the government’s first setback, which came in the shape of the National Assembly’s rejection of article 2 of the pension reform bill, the administration took a new hit in the form of an inter-union petition against the raising of the retirement age. On Wednesday, the petition in favor of retirement at 64 received one million signatures.

The petition that the eight major French unions started in January against a pension reform they deemed “unfair and harsh” goes on to receive the third-highest number of signatures on the change.org website. This symbolic line was crossed by the text supported by the CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, FSU, and Solidaires on the eve of the fifth day of mobilization against the deferral of the age of majority at 64.

This action is unnecessary because the pension system is not under danger, according to the Pensions Orientation Council’s (COR) assessment. No financial emergency exists, according to the online petition. A project that “will attack all workers head-on, and more particularly those who started working early, the most precarious” is denounced in the inter-document. union’s Obtain 1.5 million signatures is the next objective.

Only two previous petitions have received more than one million signatures, on the labor law (1.35 million) and “for a decrease in petrol costs at the pump,” since the platform was introduced in France in 2012. (1, 29 million).