On the eve of a national day of mobilization against the pension reform, the Nobel Prize for Literature Annie Ernaux, the actress Adèle Haenel, the actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin and the writer Nicolas Mathieu take a stand against the government’s project in a forum posted on Wednesday January 18 by the left-wing weekly political.
Alongside a hundred personalities, they share their “determination to fight this archaic and terribly unequal reform project” in this forum published before the publication of the magazine on newsstands, Thursday.
“The reform will hit hardest those who work in the most difficult, exhausting jobs – both physically and psychologically – and who are less likely to enjoy a peaceful retirement and imagine a future after 64”argue the signatories.
“Across Social History”
“The objective, contrary to social history, is to make women and men work more and longer, who aspire to rest and to give free rein to their projects in a privileged moment of life”they continue about this reform, which plans to push back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
According to these personalities marked on the left, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, wants “seduce the right to create a majority that the ballot box did not give him”.
Among the signatories are also the economists Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty, the actresses Ariane Ascaride and Corinne Masiero, the musician Dominique A, the humorist Guillaume Meurice or the host Valérie Damidot.