The secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, during the demonstration on February 7, in Paris. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS
The secretary general of the CGT asked this Wednesday to the deputies to “look at what is happening in the country”.
All the camps know it, thebattleof pensions is a long fight. A new front opened up in the National Assembly at the start of the week, in noise and fury, before the text was debated in the Senate at the end of February. No one can predict for the moment the outcome of this legislative marathon, but Philippe Martinez already warns that the battle will not stop if the text is validated by Parliament: “The law is bad, and when a law is bad, we continue to fight it, even if it is voted“, he said on LCI, this Wednesday.
The tone of the general secretary of the CGT is more pugnacious than that of his CFDT counterpart, Laurent Berger, who affirmed last week to the echoes that he does notborn [ferait] not one of those who will say that a reform of this magnitude adopted with 49.3 is undemocratic“. However, the Cedtist leader had not completely closed the door to a mobilization of the organization he leads in the event that the text of the reform would be adopted. “The government would be wrong to say once the text has been voted on, the subject is behind us“, he confided.
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The CGT, the CFDT and the six other main unions in the country continue to advance hand in hand against the pension reform, like the demonstration on Tuesday afternoon. Laurent Berger also affirmed on BFMTV on Wednesday that there was “no fault in the inter-union“.
“Substantive issue”
The eight organizations call on the deputies and senators in unison in a joint press release published on Tuesday evening:Parliamentarians must take responsibility by rejecting the bill“, they write. While recognizing the legitimacy of elected parliamentarians, Philippe Martinez asked them, Wednesday morning on LCI, to “watch what is happening in the country”. “There are events in life that make it necessary to take into account the opinion of the people“, he declared, insisting on the polls which “show that an immense majority of the citizens of this country are against this reform“. He then raiseda matter of substance“: “Should a deputy, even a President of the Republic, not take into account the opinion of citizens during his term of office?»
Laurent Berger meanwhile used the threat to warn the deputies. “You are in the process of alienating the France of the workers“, he launched on BFMTV. The parliamentary front, important as it is, is not the only one. The unions hope to mobilize massively for the fourth day of mobilization against the pension reform on Saturday. “The priority is next Saturday. Then we’ll see what happens“, hammered the secretary general of the CFDT.
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