“We will do everything to prevent the reform from being adopted”, launches PS Senator Laurence Rossignol

“We will do everything we can to prevent this reform” retirements “to be adopted”, launched on Saturday March 4, on France Inter, the vice-president of the Senate Laurence Rossignol, while the government bill has been examined at the Luxembourg Palace since this week. Laurence Rossignol explains the strategy adopted by the socialist, ecologist and communist senators, who wish “that article 7” which postpones the decline in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 “not be voted on before the March 7 demonstration, to give the social movement the strength to continue”.

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The other objective of the left is to ensure “that this bill not be passed and never implemented”. Senator PS from Oise assures that her group will take “all parliamentary means” to denounce this text and ensure that it is rejected. To do this, the left has several “weapons”as “our power to speak, our right to amendments and our ability to defend our convictions in the Senate”explains Laurence Rossignol, who promises to “don’t give up”.

“The social cost of the passage in force will be very heavy to pay”

The former socialist minister once again supports the Intersyndicale, which plans a new day of mobilization on Tuesday. Laurence Rossignol judge “the exceptional trade union unity in this affair” and believes that he “there are all the good reasons for the movement to continue”. “What will weigh a lot is the ability of the unions to continue to be united, to offer forms of struggle that respect the fact that people lose a day’s wages by going on strike”she says.

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Faced with the scale of previous mobilizations, Laurence Rossignol points the finger at the government’s attitude. “How far does the government want to push the social movement to finally hear what is being said in the street?”, she asks herself. She considers that if the executive does not withdraw its text, “the democratic cost, the social cost of the passage in force will be very heavy to pay”. “So, of course, Emmanuel Macron will no longer be a candidate [à l’élection présidentielle”] of 2027, he can burn everything behind him; however the political force around him probably intends to survive him”analyzes the socialist senator.