Green MP Sandrine Rousseau called on Wednesday to “the general strike“, hoping that the strike movement in the refineries and fuel depots at TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil will cause a “spark“.
“I hope that will be the spark that will ignite a general strike movement because the anger in the country is such that I think there is really room to block and change the liberal policies that are being put in place by the government“, declared the deputy EELV of Paris to France Info. “We have been saying for years now that social movements are useless but now we realize that it is for something“, she added.
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Employees of six of the seven refineries in France voted on Wednesday at dawn to continue the strike to obtain better wages, prolonging the fuel shortage which affects the entire country. Shortly after 9 a.m., the government launched, as it had threatened the day before, the requisition of personnel from the ExxonMobil depot in Gravenchon-Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime).
Asked about the march of October 16, at the call of the left-wing parties allied within the Nupes, Ms. Rousseau felt that her message was to say “that there is no fatality in the problems that French men and women are experiencing today to fill their fridge, as much as to pay their bills“. “There is hope there really is something else to do to make the country better“.
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“A whole series of sectors today which find that they are in a situation of bad remuneration should join the movement“, abounded the deputy LFI Alexis Corbière at the microphone of RTL. For him, “it’s not their fight, it’s our fight“. “All employees must understand that victory“refinery employees”would open the door to all those (…) who do not have the same balance of power“, added the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, also calling to participate in the”march against high cost of living and climate inactionof Sunday.
March in which the main unions, including the CGT, refused to join, notably leading to the withdrawal of the boss of the socialist senators Patrick Kanner who will not go there “personally“, he explained to France Info, because for him, the role of politics is to”support unions“.