The general secretary of the CFDT Laurent Berger estimates this Sunday in “BFM Politique” that the fight is not lost for the inter-union and the opponents of the pension reform, although the text was voted on Saturday night in the Senate.
“I will always appeal to reason until the end,” he said of the parliamentarians who voted in favor of the reform this week. He assures that decisions must be made on Wednesday to decide the follow-up that will be given to the movement.
After the Senate, now it is up to the mixed commission to reach a compromise on the measures that the Assembly and the Senate did not vote on in the same terms.
“Every elected official faces a choice of responsibility”
“I believe that parliamentarians have a responsibility, each elected person faces a choice of responsibility”, he believes, assuring that it is not “a threat”, but rather that his words sign a “great consideration for his mission and his responsibility”.
He asked again about the prospect of approving the pension reform through article 49.3, allowing the text to be approved without a vote. If he assures that it is indeed a “legal tool”, it constitutes, according to him, “a democratic vice”.
The general secretary of the CFDT assures despite everything that, whatever the result of the text, his union “will respect the legality” of the text.
A seventh day of mobilization took place across France on Saturday. The Interior Ministry counted 368,000 protesters across the country.
Source: BFM TV
