A test in the street, on the eve of a very busy week on the social front and in the midst of a strike in the energy sector. The left united in the Nupes is organizing this Sunday afternoon in Paris its “march against the high cost of living and climate inaction” with the support of associations and certain trade union federations, wanting to contribute to the social boiling of the fall.
“We really need to have a great popular balance of power in the face of this government’s policy of social and ecological mistreatment”, launched in the morning on franceinfo the patron saint of deputies LFI Mathilde Panot. The Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal castigated him “a march of supporters of the blocking of the country”.
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According to Mathilde Panot, 120 buses arrived from all over France for the meeting at 2 p.m. Place de la Nation, more than for the march of candidate Mélenchon which had attracted tens of thousands of people last spring. The Nobel Prize for Literature Annie Ernaux is announced.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon had launched this idea of a march in July, believing that the left should stimulate social protest against the government by associating with the unions, but they did not wait for him to raise the temperature.
The march comes amid a strike at TotalEnergies refineries, which is causing fuel shortages. And after the mobilization of September 29, another interprofessional day was launched for Tuesday by the CGT, with FO, Solidaires, FSU as well as youth movements. But the boss of the powerful confederation, Philippe Martinez, has little taste for the initiative of the left: “The unions must be supported and we must not do things in parallel,” he said on Friday.
fears of violence
Some 30,000 demonstrators are expected by the police. However, they have “real fears” about “the arrival of violent people from the ultra left, ultra yellow vests who would like to disrupt the demonstration”. “The organizer has been informed of these fears,” added a police source.
If the coalition continues to experience some dissension, its components (LFI, PS, EELV and PCF) will all parade in the procession, from Nation to Bastille. The leader of the communists Fabien Roussel and the ex-ecologist presidential candidate Yannick Jadot, skeptical about the Nupes, however indicated that they had better things to do.