One idea is the subject of a verbal ping-pong around the mobilization against the Government’s pension reform plan: that of “irresponsibility”. As a prelude to the first demonstrations, Emmanuel Macron had thus trusted that he did not believe “in the victory of irresponsibility”. On Thursday in Barcelona, this time he portrayed his trajectory as “fair and responsible.”
By participating, this Saturday in Paris, in the youth march against this reform project, the rebel deputy elected on the Somme, François Ruffin, returned the stigma. “I know that we have an irresponsible person in charge of the country,” he said.
“The responsibility would be to withdraw” the text according to François Ruffin
“It seems to me that we have a President of the Republic who is irresponsible,” he said.
And he continues: “After three years of the Covid crisis, we have exhausted the French, after the war in Ukraine, the difficulty of paying their bills, the energy whose price skyrockets, the salaries that do not follow, a president of the Republic re-elected without enthusiasm or impetus, with a majority of setbacks in the National Assembly, and that on very narrow bases is carrying out a project that offends society, I find it dangerous for the country, the nation.
“I believe that we have an irresponsible person at the head of the country. The responsibility – if I had a bit of wisdom – would have been not to propose this project. The responsibility today would be to withdraw it, ”he continued. . François Ruffin invited Emmanuel Macron to a Gaullist gesture, advising him to “say somehow: ‘I understood you'”.
“People want to work well, they see the difficulty the country is in, that the hospital, the school, the railway, the light must be rebuilt, but they say: ‘Our work must be recognized.’ It is the salary. , and retire at an age where you’re not exhausted yet, not yet on your knees,” he explained.
“Decency” as a slogan
François Ruffin also underlined what is at the heart of the mobilization according to him: “My slogan is a slogan of decency: the French must be able to live from their work. From their current job, it is salary; from their past work it is retirement; from his future job is training”.
The independent firm Occurrence, which counted the number of marchers for a media collective that included BFMTV, estimated the procession at around 14,000 walkers. Far from the 150,000 claimed by the rebellious France. But François Ruffin ensured the success of the mobilization, and registered it in the continuity of the success of the strike day on Thursday: “What began to happen on Thursday, is a thaw of the resignation. People leave.”
François Ruffin makes an appointment on January 31
The deputy hopes that this dynamic will continue during the next day of strike, set for January 31 by the unions: “There is energy, desire, and now we have to tell ourselves that we are aiming for the 31st. The date is 31st, we will have to extend it “.
He suggested to the opponents of the pension reform project to promote the movement to those around them: “And each person who came on the 19th must find a friend, a cousin, a colleague and say ‘Come with me on the 31st’ to win against retirement at 64, have the right to have a good time with your grandchildren.
Source: BFM TV
