La France Insoumise does not budge. Faced with “the deadlock situation” on the pension reform project, Emmanuel Macron must “find a way out from above”, “or else a dissolution” of the National Assembly, “or else a referendum”, declared Tuesday Jean-Luc Melenchon in Marseilles.
“On the one hand there is his own will, on the other side that of the people, to whom the last word must return, obviously to the people”, insisted the former leader of La France insoumise, before the departure of the Marseille demonstration, on the Old Port. According to him, the head of state would be “wrong to count on the deterioration” of the situation.
Manuel Bompard, his successor at the head of the party, also invited the government to launch a referendum on the question of pensions. “Make a referendum or since it is clear that the National Assembly does not think the same thing as the country, make a dissolution of the National Assembly. Back to the polls! “Launched the rebellious MP on BFMTV and RMC.
“The responsibility” of the head of state, “is to avoid blockage”
Two out of three French people are still opposed to the reform, according to the polls. And the unions expect “more than 2 million” demonstrators in the streets. The President of the Republic “is hiding, he is hiding”, accused Manuel Bompard, deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, evoking “a historic day” of social mobilization.
“If you want to find a democratic solution and you don’t want to withdraw” the bill, “at least make people vote”, he insisted, considering that “the responsibility” of the Head of State, “It’s to avoid blockage”.
The Rassemblement National is also in favor of a referendum on the current bill.