Before the second inter-union mobilization on Tuesday, the leader of the rebellious deputies “hopes that we will talk about the year 2023 as we talked about 1995 or 2020”. Two years when the government had, for different reasons, abandoned its pension reform.
A resolutely conquering Mathilde Panot. “We have a popular balance of power like never before”, welcomes the head of the deputies La France insoumise (LFI) 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 rebellious advance that 255 demonstrations are planned across France that day. “We have indicators which prove that we are on levels of mobilization which could be higher”, she rejoices.
“This reform is not necessary”
“I believe this is the first time that we have started a battle against 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”, declares the deputy of Val-de-Marne. A reference in particular to the postponement of the legal age of 62 at age 64.
For the rest, Mathilde Panot invites “those who can come this Tuesday, January 31 to parade”, welcoming in passing “those who are on strike, because losing a day’s salary in the current period is extremely difficult”.
“Nobody strikes for fun,” she says.
The parliamentarian hopes that posterity will remember this protest movement as “1995 or 2020”. In those years, the Juppé and Philippe governments had abandoned their reform. The second time, on the other hand, it was the Covid-19 crisis which had prompted the executive to adjourn its text. Beforehand, the Prime Minister had drawn 49.3 to pass his reform, then explaining the use of the cleaver article by the parliamentary obstruction organized by the rebellious.
