“We must return the word to the people,” asked Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party, on BFMTV on Wednesday night. Invited to speak about the pension reform project of the government of Elisabeth Borne, the deputy from the North affirmed that a referendum could be a way out of the crisis, while 72% of the French say they oppose the reform according to the latest Elabe poll for BFMTV.
“All the educational effort of the government is not working: the government needs to question itself and say that perhaps it should stop insisting because we are hurting France, we are fracturing it, we are damaging democracy,” he launched on our antenna.
A new call to action
The communist deputy was then projected towards the second day of mobilization, at the call of the inter-union, next January 31 -which his political party supports-. “The level of mobilization will be decisive”, declared Fabien Roussel about a pension reform that he perceives as “the straw that broke the camel’s back”.
According to him, “the more we will be [le 31 janvier]More [l’opposition] will count” and, then, the mobilization will not crack in the face of the government.
“If the President of the Republic wants a fight, if he wants a balance of power and not a referendum, we are fighting,” the head of the PCF warned then.
Source: BFM TV
