an “unprecedented” march on January 21 to show that “this is not what France is”, announces Sophie Binet

The general secretary of the CGT was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo” on Tuesday.

The goal is to say “that’s not France”, affirmed Tuesday January 9 on franceinfo Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT who is organizing, with 200 personalities, other unions and associations, a citizens’ march on January 21, against the immigration law which “profoundly attacks the values ​​of the Republic”according to her.

“France is solidarity, freedom, equality, fraternitycontinues the boss of the CGT. France is not about hate speech, stigmatization and opposition. It is this daily living together that is our strength.” She also announced the launch of a website, 21january.fr, where it will be possible to find gatherings near you and be able to organize them yourself.

An “unprecedented” call

This call is “unpublished”, according to the general secretary of the CGT, because it brings together hundreds of personalities from different backgrounds, but above all “unprecedented reflecting the seriousness of this law, breaking with the identity of our Republic”citing in particular the attack on “soil law, which dates from the French Revolution, and the right to social security and the universality of protection, which dates from the National Council of the Resistance in 1945”.

On January 25, the date on which the Constitutional Council must render its decision, Sophie Binet hopes to see censorship “the greatest number of measures of this law of shame” but she believes that it is “probable that the essential thing remains, namely a law which stigmatizes foreigners in France”. In passing, she tackles the use of the Constitutional Council as a government strategy in the adoption of the immigration law, “it is not possible to pass laws that we know are unconstitutional, everyone knows that this law is not constitutional and they still have it adopted.”

“There will not be fewer foreigners” but they will be more precarious

In “Île-de-France, almost a quarter of jobs are held by foreigners” and even more in “certain essential sectors: 60% of home helpers are foreigners, and we will prevent them from living with their family, from planning for the medium-long term, from receiving family allowances“, denounces Sophie Binet.

Consequence, according to the general secretary of the CGT, “there will not be fewer foreigners in France, since social provisions do not affect the number of foreigners in the countries, studies show this. But it will play on the precariousness of foreigners, who will have great difficulties in integrating, because they will have administrative and legal obstacles to their integration and their daily life.