The rebellious deputy judges on BFMTV-RMC that “reforms are needed where almost 7 out of 10 French people agree”, and evokes the possibility of holding “regular referendums”.
According to François Ruffin, “the President of the Republic is putting the country in danger”, with his pension reform, “by going over a deep feeling among people”. The rebellious MP underlines that the majority of French people are against the executive’s project. In an Elabe poll for BFMTV, 59% of them say they are opposed to the bill.
On the side of the presidential camp, we regularly reply that the head of state was elected after a campaign in which he had already expressed his desire to extend the legal age of departure.
Admittedly, Emmanuel Macron “was elected”, says François Ruffin on BFMTV-RMC, “but he was not elected to sit on the desires of his people”, he attacks.
“Regular referendums”
The Picard deputy judges that “reforms are needed where almost 7 out of 10 French people agree”. It would then be a question of holding “regular referendums” or of “voi[r] if there is public consent.
He castigates “a president who was not elected to serve a handful of people on Fridays during small dinners at the Élysée and not caring what 9 out of 10 French people think”.
A reference to the dinner shared by Emmanuel Macron with the bosses of the CAC 40 last Friday, which was announced The Parisian. It was then a question of evoking French industrial interests in the face of the global crisis, before the Davos economic forum.
