The pension reform bill is put to the vote on Thursday morning in the Senate, then at 3 p.m. in the National Assembly.
“The RN and Madame Le Pen are in ambush”warns Thursday March 16, 2023 on franceinfo the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger, while Marine Le Pen undertakes to return to the pension reform in the event of victory in the next presidential election in 2027. “We do not hear them speak” at the National Rally “because they don’t have much to say about work and pensions”observes Laurent Berger. “It is not the social question, as everyone knows, that drives the National Rally, but the question of identity, the national question in the sense of turning in on oneself”he adds.
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The pension reform bill is put to the vote on Thursday morning in the Senate, then at 3 p.m. in the National Assembly. This is the latest version of the text drawn up on Wednesday by seven senators and seven deputies in a joint joint committee (CMP).
“The feeling, the social debt, the feeling of contempt and injustice will be exploited by the populists and particularly by the far right”fears the number one of the CFDT. “This resentment, unfortunately, can find expression in voting and that must be avoided at all costs”, he hammers. According to him, “if we do not build a social compromise with the intermediary bodies, the trade unions in this case on this subject of pensions, we leave room for Madame Le Pen”. “It is clear that somewhere, it is put back in the saddle. It must be avoided at all costs”adds the boss of the CFDT.
“Don’t mess around”he insists before explaining that the arrival of Marine Le Pen in power in 2027 “would be worse first socially and above all politically, democratically, in terms of fundamental rights, public freedoms, discrimination”. While the patron saint of RN deputies in the Assembly recalls that the CFDT and Philippe Martinez, the leader of the CGT, both have “called to vote Macron in the second round” of the presidential election, Laurent Berger assures that he does not“not at all” of regret.