In front of the National Assembly, in front of the press. This Tuesday, the Government, headed by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, unveiled its pension reform project, the executive’s main project at the beginning of its five-year term. With an emblematic measure: gradually raising the retirement age, until reaching 64 years in 2030. The plans of the majority immediately aroused the anger of the opposition. On the left, the executives of La France insoumise denounced the text bluntly.
“Madame Borne is not ashamed of anything”
Mathilde Panot, deputy elected in Val-de-Marne and president of the rebel group in the National Assembly, first took up the elements of the head of government’s language to better contradict them. “A ‘justice, balance and progress’ project. Uh: NO. A money saving project, archaic, unfair, brutal, cruel: YES. Conclusion: Ms. Borne is not ashamed of anything,” she tweeted.
Further emphasizing the retrograde and violent nature of the government project according to her, Mathilde Panot calmly launched:
“Élisabeth Borne wants to reduce employer contributions to the fund for accidents at work and occupational diseases. Bet on our exoskeletons? Welcome to the 19th century!”. The elected official even mentioned a “social war declaration” later.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounces a “serious social regression”
If he no longer sits in the Palais-Bourbon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon remains the tutelary figure of La France insoumise. Then he also spoke, and on the same channel:
“Postponement of the retirement age. Increase in life annuities. Abolition of advantageous special regimes. Macron and Borne’s reform is a serious social setback.”
“Sentence”
The deputy elected in Val-de-Marne, Clémence Guetté also criticized a text described as unfair, in particular for certain audiences. “Prime Minister Borne has handed down her sentence. And the penalty is harsh for the French! They will have to work two more years, until they are 64. Double penalty for long and painful careers, for women,” she detailed.
It is the same judicial image of the “sentence” that came to mind of François Ruffin, parliamentarian appointed in the Somme.
“Bollard behind his desk: a judge pronouncing the sentence. He has fallen: two years sentence for all the forklifts, the cleaning ladies, the caretakers, all the workers who keep the country going,” he wrote. taking the lead in the social movement that summons: “The people will appeal in the street”.
The rebel promise “the fight”
After pointing out the “social and democratic contempt” that she reads in the government project, Raquel Garrido, elected in Seine-Saint-Denis, also invited the French to take to the streets. She recalled on Twitter the Paris meeting set by the rebels on January 21. “Macron is not legitimate to impose this regression. He steals people’s life time. It’s a fight!” she pleaded.
Louis Boyard, representative sent by Val-de-Marne to the National Assembly, proposed a textbook case:
“Imagine arriving at the supermarket checkout and seeing a 64-year-old man charging for you. Your mother, your father. That is Macron’s pension reform. There are going to be demonstrations, strikes. Youth, everything depends on us. If we started, nothing can stop us.”
MEPs will begin discussing the text in committee from January 30, before dedicating their sessions to it from February 6. The parliamentary shuttle will then occupy the Senate and the National Assembly in the spring, for a possible entry into force of the law that the Executive expects by the end of the summer. It is hard to see how this interval will appease La France insoumise.
Source: BFM TV
