The targeted cuts envisaged by the CGT Federation of Mines and Energy (FNME-CGT) against elected officials who would support the pension reform, divide the political class between the right, which denounces “illegal methods”, and the left, which considers them non-violent. The CGT Mines-Energie presented on January 13 a “battle plan” to get the “pure and simple withdrawal” of the government’s plan, which plans to push back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years. This plan provides for a “recovery of the work tool in all its forms” : “Electricity and gas restorations to the most precarious, free energy, targeted cuts, production cuts”…
“These are illegal methods, methods that come out of the rule of law”, got carried away on Europe 1 Bruno Retailleauthe boss of the senators Les Républicains (LR), who supports the pension reform. “I call on the State to firmly sanction this kind of action. I don’t give in to threats.”he assured, after the declarations of the general secretary of the FNME-CGT, Sébastien Menesplier, affirming “to take care” elected officials who support the reform.
The LR president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, for whom it is a reform ” accountant “, made similar comments on Franceinfo : “The strike is a right recognized by the Constitution. Abuses of the right to strike are not. “If such practices are carried out, I ask the government to take the necessary sanctions and the companies concerned too”he demanded.
“The limit is violence”
On the left, however, the tone is different: “Don’t count on me to start denigrating or attacking trade unions”, replied on CNews Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI). “It’s not violence, that”he said, explaining that he had “always supported all forms of actions from the moment they did not cross a threshold – which seems to me necessary not to cross within the framework of a democratic debate – which is violence against persons and against property. »
On LCI, Green MP Sandrine Rousseau was on the same line: “On the ways of mobilizing, for me, the limit is violence, that is to say that as soon as it is non-violent, all the ways of mobilizing are goodshe insisted. And even though they are disobedient, they are good, yes. »