In the parades of the 14th day of mobilization against the pension reform, Tuesday, the parties of the Nupes still wanted to believe it. And assured that “the fight will not stop”.
The 14th day of mobilization against the pension reform on Tuesday June 6 was marked by the lowest level of participation since the start of the social movement in January. However, in the parades, the leaders of the opposition still wanted to believe it. Thus, in Paris, in the procession, they were as from the first day alongside the unions, with in mind their next fight in two days, the arrival in the hemicycle of the Liot text to repeal the government text. A way for them to maintain the pressure then the movement withers.
>> “We are not going to let it go”: in the procession against the pension reform in Paris, demonstrators between anger and hope for a follow-up to the mobilization
Witness the presence of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the Parisian procession: if he descends into the arena, it is good that the movement is coming to a turning point. And that time appears on the balance sheet. “People have regained confidence in their strengths, he says. Of course, if the victory was here today, we would all exult! That’s life, that’s the fight: there are very beautiful days and less beautiful days. And today… the weather is nice.” The rebellious leader is recovering to re-motivate the troops, to counterbalance the formula of the boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger who believes that “the match is ending“. “There, it’s not a match, defends Jean-Luc Mélenchon. People were playing two years of extra work: that will mean anguish, illness. So it wasn’t a match, it wasn’t a game, folks.”
“It was a very strong battle and that’s why it’s not over. And I’ll tell you: it will never end, one way or another. This fight will find its continuation.”
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Several hundred meters away, not far from the National Assembly, for the rest of the Nupes, like Marine Tondelier, the patron saint of environmentalists, the match against the government is not bent: “They say, ‘We won, it’s over’, but they didn’t win, and we didn’t lose, she points out. We didn’t win either, they didn’t lose either: doesn’t that remind you of something? We are exactly in a moment that we can call a ZAD!
“See you at the polls”
Olivier Faure comes forward, to music by Bob Marley. According to the number 1 of the Socialist Party, the fight will be transformed: “We have a country that is more fractured than ever, he explains. This fight will not stop, if only because there will be other democratic deadlines and the French will have the possibility, from the next elections, to remind the Head of State that they do not share not his opinion. So, see you at the polls!”
Before that, the Nupes is preparing its next fight in the hemicycle Thursday, June 8: the arrival of the text of the Liot group to repeal the pension reform that the majority is trying to make inadmissible. The left is already denouncing a “democracy”A “institutional coup”.