"France does not lead itself with cudgels", warned Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Tuesday since the Parisian demonstration against the pension reform, believing that even "people in the majority say to themselves that all this is crazy".
The rebellious referred to the government's refusal to accept the "mediation" proposed by the boss of the CFDT Laurent Berger to "find a way out" of the social crisis, a proposal to which the MoDem deputies said they were favorable.
"It was useful that proposals were made, Laurent Berger did it, I also made one which was to submit the whole pension file to the social security board of directors", underlined Jean-Luc Melenchon.
"This power wants nothing except to force its text through," he added. "The attitude of (Prime Minister Elisabeth) Borne leaves us the possibility of only one watchword: Let her go and her reform".
About the MoDem, he observed: "There are in the majority of people who have already been elected and who before being minister, president of the Republic, have experienced universal suffrage, the relationship of conviction" .
“So these people are much more normal than the enlightened ones who lead us and they realize that here it is France and it is not a country that is led with cudgels”, he said. he adds.
"A lot of people in the relative majority think that all this is crazy, that this way of provoking continuously," said the former presidential candidate.
"President Emmanuel Macron, listen to the deputies of your majority and accept the outstretched hand of the unions", exclaimed the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel.
For the former environmentalist presidential candidate Yannick Jadot, we must "choose the option of appeasement, dialogue, reconciliation".
"The government explained to us that it had an outstretched hand, we are still looking for it", criticized the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure. "We have a completely deaf and blind president who does not understand his country"
03/28/2023 16:43:40 - Paris (AFP) - © 2023 AFP
