A decidedly conquering Mathilde Panot. “We have a balance of popular power like never before,” greeted the head of La France insoumise (LFI) deputies this Monday on BFMTV-RMC, before the second inter-union mobilization against the pension reform, scheduled for Tuesday.
Taking a count from the Solidaires union, the rebel advance that 255 demonstrations are planned across France that day. “We have indicators that prove that we are at mobilization levels that could be higher,” he rejoices.
“This reform is not necessary”
“I think it is the first time that we started a battle against the pension reform […] with so many people who have understood that the government wants to impose two firm years on them and that this reform is not necessary”, declared the deputy for Val-de-Marne. A reference in particular to the postponement of the legal age of 62 years. at 64 years old.
For the rest, Mathilde Panot invites “those who can come to parade this Tuesday, January 31”, welcoming “those who are on strike, because losing a day’s salary in the current period is very difficult”.
“No one strikes for fun,” she says.
The parliamentarian hopes that posterity will remember this protest movement as “1995 or 2020”. In those years, the governments of Juppé and Philippe had abandoned their reform. The second time, on the other hand, it was the Covid-19 crisis that had led the executive to postpone its text. Previously, the Prime Minister had obtained 49.3 to approve his reform, later explaining the use of the cleaver article due to the parliamentary obstruction organized by the rebels.
Source: BFM TV
