Pensions: Mélenchon wants to "continue" the mobilization "as long as the reform is proposed"

"As long as the reform at 64 is proposed, we must continue" the mobilization on pensions, judged Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Sunday, while warning that "power is counting on excesses to enjoy a situation of fear"

Pensions: Mélenchon wants to "continue" the mobilization "as long as the reform is proposed"

"As long as the reform at 64 is proposed, we must continue" the mobilization on pensions, judged Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Sunday, while warning that "power is counting on excesses to enjoy a situation of fear".

"The fight will continue regardless of the result" of the motions of censure which will be examined Monday in the National Assembly, specified the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) to the Grand Jury RTL / LCI / Le Figaro, recalling that "the united unions have been calling for action all week and a big protest on Thursday."

"I will never say that we must stop the mobilization, as long as the reform at 64 is proposed, we must continue," he insisted.

Asked about the violence, he stressed that "not once has this text acquired any form of parliamentary legitimacy".

But for him, "the movement is calm, you don't know what a violent movement is", he told journalists on set, referring to May 68. "This movement is calm and a remarkable pacifism", added the ex-candidate for the Elysée Palace.

"Lately, we had had a more respectful practice" of maintaining order, he said, but "it seemed to me that we were going back to much more brutal things", he said. he also deplored, referring in particular to the demonstration in Place d'Italie in Paris on Saturday.

For him, it's time to show "cold blood". "We have no interest in going to a pitched battle," he hammered again.

"We who are fighting against this law, we have a message to send to our friends. Do not make the fight invisible by practices that would turn against us", he asked.

Because the former deputy believes that "the power of Mr. Macron relies on excesses to then enjoy a situation of fear".

However, he says he refuses "to come here to lecture people", and notes that "the French people are not a people who are whistled".

Regarding the cross-partisan motion of censure by the independent group Liot, he "thinks that Les Républicains will vote for it".

"To vote for censorship is to reset the counters to zero," he said, assuring that there would be no dissolution of the Assembly by Emmanuel Macron. "He would take the beating of the century, therefore he won't."

LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard also calls on LR deputies to vote for censorship: "Whatever you think of this reform, what we are asking you is do you agree with the method? , with this passage in permanent force “, he explained to Cnews / Europe1 / les Echos.

“When we vote for a motion of censure in France together, there is no need to have an alternative majority, so it is not because opposition groups are going to vote for this motion of censure that they are ready to govern the country together", specified the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, thus responding to the attacks of the presidential majority.

03/19/2023 15:28:46 -         Paris (AFP) -         © 2023 AFP