Pension reform: “I think there is a lot of cinema”, says Manuel Bompard about the heated debates in the Assembly

Monday February 20, Manuel Bompard, La France insoumise (LFI) deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône and party coordinator, is the guest of “4 Truths” on France 2. First of all, he defends the strategy of obstruction adopted by LFI during the examination of the pension reform in the National Assembly, explaining that by preventing the vote on article 7 relating to the postponement of the retirement age legal retirement, the Insoumis wanted “not to allow the government to have a victory which then makes it possible to say to the French women and men (…): ‘There is no longer any point in demonstrating since the National Assembly has adopted the postponement of the retirement age to 64′”.

Marine Le Pen “slept for ten days”

Asked about the stormy debates in the Assembly, Manuel Bompard said: “I believe there is a lot of cinema because in truth, this debate has not been a much more heated or much more violent debate than many other debates in the Fifth Republic.” He then returns to the role played by Marine Le Pen during the review of the reform in the Assembly, believing that“She was completely silent” and that’“she slept for ten days”. The LFI deputy also calls for “block the country” during the next day of mobilization on March 7.