Apart from the battle of figures – 29,500 participants according to the independent firm Occurence against 140,000 according to Nupes – this march “against the high cost of living and climate inaction”, Sunday October 16, above all remotivated the troops on the left. Nothing like, in fact, a great demonstration that gives “a lot of strength“to boost morale, according to the leader of the ecologist deputies Cyrielle Chatelain.”All the new rights were acquired through political struggle in the Assembly, but also in the street“, she advances.
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The member for Isère will again be in the street alongside the unions, this Tuesday, October 18, during a call for a general strike. For the rebellious leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, this week which is starting will be decisive and will include several stages: “Day 1 is the popular march. Day 2 is 49.3. And day 3 is the general strike, October 18“, he launched. “It is the great conjunction between a popular mobilization, an institutional crisis and a social mobilization“, he promises.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon who already imagines transforming the popular union, created in June on the occasion of the legislative elections, into a “new popular front“, ready to govern. But before getting there, the deputies of the Nupes must still manage to remain united in the National Assembly.
Another life is possible, rid of the plunder of profit. Another world is possible, freed from the rampage of capitalist productivism.
With what we are doing today, we are designing a new Popular Front.#March16October #LaMarche pic.twitter.com/A0o454pAkV
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) October 16, 2022
This question of the union is often quickly evacuated by the main interested parties. “There may be differences, but finally, we all have the will, the desire to keep this gathering going“, explains Olivier Faure. A gathering which, according to him, allows “to no longer roll out the red carpet under the feet of those who constantly crush us.”
A barely veiled reference to the government and to article 49.3 which will soon be used to pass the 2023 bill, according to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. The response of the Nupes is being prepared in the form of a motion of censure.
La Nupes is motivated by the march “against the high cost of living” – The report by Audrey Tison
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