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2024 Legislative Elections: CGT Cheminots wants to put pressure on the Élysée
2024 Legislative Elections: CGT Cheminots wants to put pressure on the Élysée
(franceinfo)
The CGT railway workers’ union is calling for pressure to be increased on the executive so that Emmanuel Macron decides to take into account the result of the legislative elections, in which the union of the left (New Popular Front) came out on top.
The CGT Cheminots union wants to put pressure on the Élysée. On social networks, Thursday July 11, the union calls for rallies “in front of the prefectures and near the National Assembly”to demand the establishment of a government from the New Popular Front. With the parliamentary session on Thursday, July 18 in mind. “We consider that the President of the Republic must now respect the result at the polls”explains Thierry Nier, general secretary of the CGT railway workers’ union.
“The population has expectations and in this case in what the New Popular Front proposes in its program”Thierry Nier further emphasizes. In the coming days, the CGT intends to broaden its appeal to other trade union organizations, such as the CFDT. For its part, La France insoumise has already announced that it will join the social movement.
