The First Secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) Fabien Roussel will debate with the former Prime Minister and current Mayor of Le Havre, Édouard Philippe, on the occasion of the Huma Day. “It’s an interesting debate on the ideas we hold, on the vision of France that we want to defend,” explained the communist.
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will go to the Fête de l’Huma on Sunday, September 17, to debate with the First Secretary of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel, announced this last Monday at the microphone of Sud Radio. “It’s an interesting debate on the ideas that we hold, on the vision of France that we want to defend today and tomorrow”, indicated Fabien Roussel, underlining the importance of maintaining a “left-right relationship” in the country.
A meeting on the background of pension reform
A resolute opponent of the latest pension reform and more generally of all of the economic policy pursued by President Emmanuel Macron, Fabien Roussel will therefore have before him the former Prime Minister (2017-2020) who had “unambiguously” supported the extension of the legal retirement age to 64 years. In October 2022, the mayor of Le Havre and founder of the Horizons party even pleaded for an even greater lag, up to 67 years.
Flagship measure of the five-year term, the pension reform has provoked major demonstrations in the country. Since January and until June, the country’s main trade unions have regularly called for mobilization, bringing together, according to CGT figures, more than two million people throughout France at the height of the protest, and more than a million people according to the police count.