The national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, called on Saturday for “large meetings“of the left parties in January”to go to the debate with the Frenchon the pension reform to be presented by Elisabeth Borne next week. “We propose (to) the left-wing parties, unanimously opposed to this reform, to organize large meetings from January throughout the country“said Mr. Roussel on France Inter.
It would start with “a big meeting in Paris with all the forces of the left to tell the truth to the French, to give the figures and to say the proposals that we are putting on the table“, he added, while the executive favors a postponement of the retirement age from 62 to 65 years. These meetings would comein addition to the mobilizations of the trade unions, which are all united in saying no to this age measure“, specified Mr. Roussel.
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The general secretaries of the CFDT and the CGT, Laurent Berger and Philippe Martinez, have already promised social mobilization “determined» in the event of a postponement of the departure age. The PCF has launched an online petition (unebonneretraite.fr) to demand “a great national debate“. And “especially not a 49.3”, added Saturday the number one of the Communist Party and deputy of the North, while the Prime Minister reserves this cartridge to pass the reform without a vote before the National Assembly.
“If the left were to govern, we will guarantee that no pension is lower than the Smic“At the end of a full career, argued Mr. Roussel, while recognizing “shades” within the left alliance LFI-PS-EELV-PCF, on retirement at 60 or the taking into account of the years of study for example. The Prime Minister must receive the bosses of the parliamentary groups until the middle of next week, before presenting the outlines of the reform project probably Thursday, with a view to an examination in the Assembly at the start of the year.