Elisabeth Borne said on Saturday that she wanted to "convince the French" of the merits of the pension reform, Philippe Martinez calls on them once again this Sunday to take to the streets massively next Thursday, to demand their withdrawal.
The general secretary of the CGT, guest of France 3, said to see many promises of a strong mobilization: the petition launched by the Intersyndicale unitarily opposed to the reform, which accumulates more than 336,000 signatures this Sunday at noon, but also "the number of cases ordered to go to the demonstration, the strike notices filed in the public", he listed, also recalling, in passing, that "in the private sector we do not need notice ".
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So, will the French be “a million to break into the streets”, as the boss of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, asked in the Journal du Dimanche?
"I think we can be more, we do everything for it, but I don't have a counter," says Martinez.
Who insists a little later: "The parliamentary debate depends on the mobilization in the street, it is this which will set the tempo" once the text is debated in the Assembly and the Senate, while the left has called for mobilize on Thursday.
But the CGT leader recalled it: what the trade unions are asking for is not the amendment of the text but the outright withdrawal of an “unfair, unequal and doctrinaire reform”.
It is “the cement of this union unity” and “there is not a sheet of cigarette paper between us”.
Philippe Martinez was not asked about Fabien Roussel's idea of submitting the pension reform to a referendum rather than a vote in Parliament.
“A referendum is six months of campaigning.
What could be more democratic than engaging in a debate in the factories, the universities, the media, project against project?
“, underlines the deputy in the JDD.
