The Senate continues to examine the pension reform until March 12. Debates from which La France Insoumise (LFI) is absent, which has no elected representative in the Upper House. The movement of the radical left has therefore withdrawn in recent days to actions on the ground.
Tracts in hand, Jérôme Legavre crisscrosses the housing of this popular district of Château-Thierry a few tens of kilometers north-east of Paris, reports, Aurelien Devernoix from the political service of RFI.
” Hello Madam, I am a member of La France Insoumise and we are distributing this leaflet against Macron’s pension reform “. Talking about pension reform easily loosens tongues: “ It’s scary, we can’t find the term. It is unacceptable », replies his interlocutor. “ It is true that more than 80% of people consider that this reform is absolutely unacceptable… “, abounds Jérôme Legavre.
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The objective of this door-to-door is to convince the French to mobilize for the day of March 7, which has become the heart of the rebellious strategy, for lack of presence in the Senate. ” Of course, parliamentary debates play a role, but the center of gravity of the whole situation is what will happen on March 7 and from March 7 “, assures the deputy.
Positive reception
But if the reception is very largely positive, the noise and the fury deployed by LFI during the debates in the National Assembly have left some traces. “ Yell to yell. Apparently, for wasting time and getting the bill through the Senate, that’s all it actually did “, reproaches a citizen to Jérôme Legavre. “ Yes, but there is one thing on the other hand. It’s that it didn’t pass the Assembly “, he resumes. In these low-rent apartments, it is above all the soaring prices that are worrying. “ Everything has gone up, it’s more important to me than focusing on retirement… ».
A conjunction of anger on which La France Insoumise intends to rely, to be heard more outside Parliament.
Government under fire for its communication in recent days
” It’s a left-wing reform “. By discovering the front page of the newspaper Le Parisien yesterday with this quote from the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, the parliamentarians of the Left are rightly shouting at each other. ” It’s provocation, cynicism, contempt for the French “, tweets the boss of the socialist senators Patrick Kanner.
Already on Wednesday, speaking of an ecological disaster about the blockages, government spokesman Olivier Véran had drawn the wrath of the opposition.
Is there not fatigue in the air in the presidential camp or worse a desire to distort reality. On the question of the number of beneficiaries of the pension at 1,200 euros in particular, another controversial subject.
The Renaissance deputy Marc Ferracci, close to Emmanuel Macron, made the start of mean guilty on France Inter. ” The reality is that there has been some wavering on this subject. Now, when I heard about lies around these subjects. When you lie, and you lie deliberately, I don’t think there is that will, absolutely not, ”assures the MP.
The Prime Minister will have a lot to do this Monday evening to rectify the situation. On the eve of a mobilization that promises to be historic, Élisabeth Borne is the guest of the show It’s yourson France 5.