“On March 7, everything is blocked, everything must stop everywhere”. Since Montpellier this Thursday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, recognized that a “certain form of action”, that of repeated demonstrations, had “reached its limit”.
“The president is more absent than ever (…), we need that by a determined action today and on the 7th (March), he is given the lesson that he must receive”, declared the leader again. of rows of the Insoumis, who spoke on the sidelines of the demonstration against the pension reform organized Thursday in Montpellier, where he will be in a meeting in the evening.
About this mobilization on Thursday, he described it as “the last signal before the total blockage which will be on March 7”. “Today, there will be quite a number (of demonstrators), but a certain form of action is reaching its limit, which is the repeated days”.
“On March 7, everything is blocked, everything must stop everywhere, and this evening I will tell you about it at the meeting, I will tell you how we are going to go about getting there. We have time to prepare and do things seriously,” continued the former presidential candidate.
“They themselves do not believe what they say”
Also referring to the government’s hiccups in defending this reform project, particularly around pensions at 1,200 euros a month, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said he was “surprised by the amateurism of which the drafting of the law” on the reform of retreats testifies.
“All of this seems incoherent,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “What is striking is that it’s government on a small scale, they decide but they don’t know what they put in their text. They themselves do not believe what they say and what they have written, he added, castigating “elements of language that come out like an automatic answering machine”.
“Why are they doing this if they themselves don’t know what is in their law? “, he questioned, calling into question an “ideological vision of society” and the desire to “give a pledge” to the European Commission by raising the retirement age.
“He hears nothing, understands nothing: yes, the French people have a compass, they want their efforts to be rewarded by progress for everyone, and not by social setbacks”, also dropped the leader of the Insoumis , questioned on the declarations of Emmanuel Macron who had judged Wednesday in the Council of Ministers that the oppositions had “more compass”, in particular after the rejection by the Assembly of a senior index in companies.