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The singer says she is “ashamed of what is happening” in France and fears that “repeated strikes” will turn the country into a “tourist brake”. She said so in statements to the French newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
Last March, three hundred people linked to the world of culture signed a letter addressed to President Emmanuel Macron in which they demanded that he immediately withdraw the pension reform, highly controversial and against which eleven days of mobilization have already been held. national.
Françoise Hardy, a French music icon of the 1970s, who is usually rather discreet about her country’s political affairs, told the Sunday newspaper that she could never have signed that letter.
“I am interested in the economy and I have understood that there are several imperative reasons for the pension reform. All European countries have set the retirement age at 65, 66 or 67, except ours, which has the highest public spending in Europe, a public debt of 3 trillion euros with an interest rate of 3%, which it will probably increase even more,” said the 79-year-old singer.
The singer of ‘Tous les garçons et les filles’ even said she was ashamed of what is happening in France. “The budget deficit is about 164,000 million euros, which comes from afar, due, among other things, to the cost of labor, too high for French production to be competitive. In addition, pensioners are living longer and longer, and currently we do not even have two workers per pensioner. To tell the truth, I am ashamed of what is happening in a France that allows itself to be manipulated and misinformed by extremists of the left or of the right: the LFI, the Nupes, Marine Le Pen, ”she denounced.
Hardy also criticized protesters and strikers causing transportation problems. “They prevent many people from getting to work normally and even some of them from working, but also the transformation of Paris and the country into tourist repulses, not to mention all the violence and the many unacceptable material damages that are expensive to repair. ”, he concluded.