The national secretary of the PCF assured our antenna that the pension reform was “the straw that broke the camel’s back” and called for mobilization on January 31st.
“We must give the floor back to the people”, asked this Wednesday evening on BFMTV Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the French Communist Party. Invited to speak on the pension reform project of the government of Elisabeth Borne, the deputy from the North affirmed that a referendum could be an outlet for the crisis, while 72% of French people say they oppose the reform according to the latest Elabe poll for BFMTV.
“All the government’s educational efforts are not working: the government has to question itself and say to itself that it should perhaps stop insisting because we are hurting France, we are fracturing it, we are damaging democracy”, he launched on our antenna.
A new call to action
The communist deputy then projected himself towards the second day of mobilization, at the call of the inter-union, on January 31 next – that his political party supports. “The level of mobilization will be decisive”, declared Fabien Roussel on a pension reform which he perceives as “the straw that broke the camel’s back”.
According to him, “the more we will be [le 31 janvier]more [l’opposition] will count” and, then, the mobilization will not crack in the face of the government.
“If the President of the Republic wants the arm wrestling, if he wants the balance of power and not the referendum, we are arm wrestling”, then warned the boss of the PCF.
