“This reform is retirement for the dead”, “Emmanuel Macron’s dream is the Uber worker”, “Let’s be a million in the street” : from LFI deputy François Ruffin – organizer of the evening via his newspaper ” Fakir » in collaboration with Reporterre – to the secretary general of EELV Marine Tondelier, the boss of the PCF Fabien Roussel or the PS deputy Boris Vallaud, the left and the environmentalists launched hostilities on Tuesday January 10 against the pension reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron, at a meeting in the 11e district of Paris
Rejection of the pension reform, look for the woman
Summary of this public meeting? A firework of punchlines.
8:40 p.m .: the political leaders of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) are about to speak when the face of Elisabeth Borne, about to announce a decline in the starting age to 64, appears on the screen. The crowd boos her copiously.
“We want to live”
Total contrast with what preceded, when the thousand people, gathered in this packed room, feverishly sang a cover of “I Will Survive”: “We want to live, not just survive, retire at 60, work better and for less time! »
At the podium, François Ruffin vilifies an Elisabeth Borne who came “Issue a sentence behind his desk: two more years for forklift drivers, truck drivers, cleaning women”.
“It is for them that it will weigh the most on the shoulders, the knees, while for the ministers it is an arbitration, it is abstract”he is indignant. “You have to touch hearts […], awaken joy, pride” against the “resignation”.
Pension reform: what is the “senior index”, which aims to improve the employment of the over 60s?
The entire left, from the socialists to La France insoumise via the ecologists, has already called for rallying on the first day of union mobilization against the reform, on January 19.
During the meeting, speaking time is strictly limited to seven minutes because the speakers – and the left-wing parties – are numerous.
“In the street, 49.3 does not exist”
The head of rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot relies on affects, evoking “the more joyful energy” in the crowd that “the gray face of Elisabeth Borne”.
The boss of the Greens Marine Tondelier promises a “National Assembly transformed into ZAD” (area to be defended) and chants that “in the street, 49.3 doesn’t exist”.
Olivier Véran’s (a little laborious) argument to defend the pension reform
Earlier during this vigil “departure at 64” a home help, a handler, an employee at the National Forestry Office and a sales adviser to Leroy Merlin had said all the bad things they thought about this reform.
“Each employee loads or unloads four or five trailers per hour”had notably told Mouloud Sahraoui, handler at Geodis. “These politicos are completely cracked” of “wanting to kill us at work”.
The next episode of this social stand-up is already scheduled. January 19. In the street.
