Still mobilized, opponents of the pension reform innovate again to maintain pressure on the executive. This Tuesday, the inter-union launches a website, called Until the withdrawal. He recalls the next two stages of the fight against the law promulgated in April, and believes that "we can still prevent the pension reform".
As a first step, recalls the site, on June 6, a new day of strikes and demonstrations - the fourteenth, counting that of May 1 - will take place. The inter-union then hopes to gather "hundreds of thousands" of people in the streets of France. A challenge, while the bill has been definitively adopted by Parliament, and that the last mobilizations, on April 6 and 13, gathered less than 600,000 participants each.
Then, two days later, on June 8, the National Assembly will consider a bill by the Liot group to repeal the reform. "It is necessary that the deputies respect the will of more than 7 French out of 10 and vote for or abstain so that the bill is in the majority," says the website, which therefore offers Internet users to challenge their elected representatives.
'Stealing two years of life'
By entering its postal code, two small boxes offer to send a message on Twitter or by email to the deputies of the territory. On the social network, a message indicating "Are you going to prevent the government from imposing the pension reform" is proposed automatically, mentioning, behind, the elected officials concerned. By e-mail, a message can be sent to Members on their address in the National Assembly. The reform "amounts to stealing two years of our lives. However, other financing solutions exist to guarantee high-level pensions, which the government has refused to examine, "proposes the site as a message.
This site is the latest find of the inter-union, anxious to maintain the flame of a protest that the executive seeks at all costs to put behind it. "We have a lot of imagination and inventiveness. We must continue the mobilization, "explained the boss of the CGT, Sophie Binet, to the Parisian, this Tuesday. Jusquauretrait.fr "will allow citizens to challenge parliamentarians by email or Twitter to call on them to take their responsibilities and vote for this law," she added.
In the past, the unions had already called on opponents several times to challenge their elected representatives, during the parliamentary process of the reform or even after its vote. "We call unitarily on our organizations to go and meet with deputies everywhere to call on them to vote for this bill," they wrote in early May, in a statement. The inter-union had then reiterated its call a few days later, asking "solemnly" the parliamentarians to support the text of the Liot group.