THE ESSENTIAL
- 48 hours after a new mobilization, the inter-union expects even more massive than the one on January 19, the unions continue with their calls for a strike. read the article
- CFDT leader Laurent Berger believes that the Government and Parliament would make “a mistake” by not taking the demonstrations into account. read the article
- For her part, Elisabeth Borne deplored before the BFMTV microphone the “many misinformation” about the project carried out by the government. read the article
- The coordinator of France Insoumise Manuel Bompard is the guest of the BFM Politique program at noon. follow our live
For Elisabeth Borne, the postponement of the starting age to 64 “is no longer negotiable”
The postponement of the retirement age from 62 to 64, contested by the unions and most of the opposition, “is no longer negotiable,” Elisabeth Borne said this Sunday, on the eve of the start of the examination of the project in commission in the Assembly.
“It is no longer negotiable, retirement at 64 and the acceleration (of the extension of the contribution period, editor’s note) of the Touraine reform,” the prime minister said in franceinfo:
Bruno Le Maire calls on the majority parties to “unite” and expects the support of the Republicans “until the end”
Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire called on the majority parties (Renaissance, Horizon, MoDem) to “unite” in the National Assembly and support the pension reform, in an interview with the Sunday newspaper.
“When you are a majority, you support the proposals that were part of the presidential project,” said the minister, who said he hoped that the Republicans would support this reform “until the end.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon suggests a “very big weekend walk”
On Saturday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon reiterated his wish that the unions “allow” the next organization of a “big march” against the pension reform “during a weekend” for greater mobilization.
“If there are calls to demonstrate, demonstrate. We are lucky to have all our unions united and all the Nupes organizations united for this January 31,” the former LFI presidential candidate told Villiers-le-Bel during the New Year’s Eve ceremony. . by the deputy of La France Insoumise Carlos Martens Bilongo.
Why a demonstration during a weekend? “Because during the week only those who are at work can take action, through strikes. That it is not always easy for them, but there they are, ”he explained.
Manuel Bompard is the guest of BFM Politique at noon
The new coordinator of France Insoumise and deputy for Bouches du Rhône participates in the BFM Politique program from noon on BFMTV. In particular, he will discuss the pension reform project a week before the opening of the debates in the National Assembly.
Elisabeth Borne deplores the “false information” circulating about the reform
While traveling through Calvados yesterday, the Prime Minister considered that “a lot of false information” is circulating about the pension reform.
“I hear a lot of false information. For example, I hear that apprentices before 2014 cannot benefit from the quarters they acquired as part of their apprenticeship, I hear that the reform would penalize women who have cut careers, ”she declared into the microphone. from BFMTV.
The head of government reaffirmed her desire to favor pedagogy to explain this reform that remains largely unpopular among the French.
For Laurent Berger, not taking the protests into account “would be a mistake”
Several members of the government have indicated that the mobilizations would not call into question their willingness to carry out this reform project that they describe as necessary. In an interview with Le Monde, Laurent Berger considered that the Executive and Parliament would be wrong by not considering the scope of the protest in the streets.
Will the mobilization on Tuesday be more massive than the one on January 19?
During their various speeches since the mobilization of January 19, the leaders of the inter-union reiterated their intention to gather even more people in the streets for the January 31 demonstration. As a reminder, the organizations estimate that two million people demonstrated during the first day of the mobilization while the Ministry of the Interior evokes a figure slightly higher than a million demonstrators throughout France.
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Source: BFM TV
