"We have to find a way out, so we will find one by force," said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Insoumis leader, Saturday in Marseille, as part of the demonstrations against the pension reform project.
"Mr. Macron leaves no other possibility than to be in this frontal relationship, well we are frontal and we hope that in a few days, he ends up understanding that it cannot go on like this", pleaded the former LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, alongside Manuel Bompard, who succeeded him in the hemicycle.
Believing that "we never had the impression that the power was so weak, and at the same time, novelty, ridiculous, having too many words, inappropriate gestures" (Editor's note: reference to the arms of honor of the Minister of Justice in the National Assembly), Mr. Mélenchon once again affirmed his "feeling that it is possible to obtain the withdrawal of this text of law".
"This week, the text should return to the National Assembly, and we are going to reach a sort of summit in the confrontation with power," insisted the former socialist senator, predicting that this bill will not find a solution. majority in the Bourbon Palace.
"We rather have the impression that no one wants to lend themselves to this comedy anymore," he said, recommending, "as Mr. Berger said (Editor's note: the secretary general of the CFDT), that 'we are moving towards a consultation of the people themselves (by referendum), so that we can decide".
"In a democratic country, we need a democratic way out of an impasse that was created by power itself," he insisted, saying that France is "going through a moment of political foreclosure by the President of the Republic without precedent in the social history of this country".
According to Mr. Mélenchon, the Head of State would thus have "brutalized the National Assembly, then brutalized the Senate, then refused to speak to the leaders of the trade union confederations, who undoubtedly did not expect such violence in contempt ".
“There is an art of governing and it is something different from running a bank, as Mr. Macron once did,” rebuked the leader of the Insoumis, regretting “the will (of the Head of State ) to affirm a kind of dominating temperament which, added to the rest, gives the impression that we are no longer really in a democracy".
11/03/2023 15:54:09 - Marseille (AFP) © 2023 AFP
