The leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon called on Sunday for better “coordination” between political parties and unions to “throw all our forces” into the battle against the pension reform, addressing the brand new secretary general of the CGT Sophie Binet.
“I would like us to have more relaxed relations” with Sophie Binet than with her predecessor Philippe Martinez, who “we don’t know why one day got into a bad mood against us (LFI) and didn’t dropped more, ”said Jean-Luc Mélenchon on France 3.
The founder of La France insoumise was questioned about the differences in strategy between the political parties and the inter-union, which unlike LFI, the Communists or the Greens, agreed to go to Matignon on Wednesday to meet Elisabeth Borne.
In this mobilization, “what is certainly a problem is that from the beginning, at the instigation of Mr. Martinez, it was decreed that the unions managed this movement from start to finish and that the politicians had only to keep quiet”, regretted Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“General strike day on April 6”
“I have been pleading from the start for there to be some kind of coordination, I continue to ask for it today”, for example “something called a committee to fight against pension reform”, asked the ex-presidential candidate.
“We are, if we count the day of March 8, at the 11th event” next Thursday. “There are people who (…) have dozens of days of strike in the boots. They have the moral right to ask us to make an extra effort in the fight,” he stressed.
“That’s why I took the liberty of suggesting that it be a day of general strike on April 6 so that we throw all our forces into the battle, but it’s not me who can give an instruction the same,” he admitted.