"Trade union unity is tremendous support
" to win the battle against pension reform, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said Thursday from Guyana, promising a
"parliamentary battle"
on the part of the united left but also numerous meetings.
The government, which presented its plan to postpone the retirement age to 64 on Tuesday,
"will do everything it can to disgust people"
, said the former candidate for France 2. presidential, who must return to France on Friday after a week-long trip to Guyana.
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And
"we do everything to motivate them and set them in motion"
, he warned.
He was delighted:
“Trade union unity is a tremendous support”, because “trade unions play a key role”
.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon had nurtured strained relations with unions last year during protests against high prices, when he urged them to coordinate more with the left.
This time, the political march of January 21, two days after the day of strike and demonstration called by the unions,
"is not my march"
, he stressed, but
"that of 10 youth organizations"
- including several formations of the united left in Nupes.
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This will
"lead the parliamentary battle"
, said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, but faces a
"project to rectify the Social Security budget which is a 49-3 in disguise because the debate cannot last more than a certain time, and after that it goes through a prescription”
.
So, the Nupes will also make a
“huge campaign”
in the country, added the founder of La France insoumise, a movement at the initiative of the coalition created last May.
He convened the success of the campaign against the European Constitutional Treaty in 2005,
"where we showed that we can reverse a trend", as well as the previous pension reform in 2020, which "we blocked"
.
He reiterated his opposition in principle to the postponement of the retirement age.
To finance the system, it is necessary
"to be able to work all, better, and to know how to share"
by the tax and the employers' contributions because
"some take everything and make gigantic profits, never seen in the history of France".
This reform project,
"it's happiness that you get from society, socially useful time
," said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, speaking of the role of retirees in associations or in families.
