Val-de-Marne: an appeal signed by 400 left-wing elected officials against the pension reform

The idea popped up last week on their WhatsApp loop.

The fifteen left-wing and environmental mayors launched an appeal, signed this Monday afternoon by more than 400 elected officials from Val-de-Marne to support the social movement against pension reform, on the eve of a new strike.

In this text, the signatories established in the 47 municipalities of the department give their "full support for the trade union and popular mobilization, by a large majority in the country, against the decline in the legal retirement age and against the increase in number of quarters needed to receive a full pension.

An “unprecedented” initiative

For them, this reform constitutes "for the inhabitants of our cities, in particular for the agents of the territorial public service, an unprecedented social decline, with serious consequences on the daily life and the health of those who devote their time to the 'collective and general interest'.

And to underline the “unprecedented” character of the intervention of local elected officials in this national debate, who demand “the withdrawal of the text and the opening of a great national debate”.

The PCF mayor of Bonneuil, Denis Oztorun, had for example proposed to the spokesperson for Renaissance, Loïc Signor to debate, when he announced that he was closing his town hall, in “solidarity” with the demonstrators on January 31.

Most of these mayors, as elsewhere in Île-de-France, had moreover "committed themselves" and had joined the "solidarity town hall" movement, following the call launched by the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel, taken up by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo (PS).

The leader of the Communists is also in Val-de-Marne, this Monday evening, as part of his draft referendum motion, discussed this very Monday, in the Assembly, to force the government to organize a referendum.

He comes to discuss the subject but also "take the pulse of the country", according to the PCF 94, André-Maigné space at Kremlin-Bicêtre.

This municipality is also renewing the dead town hall operation on Tuesday.

"The front of mayors and local elected officials must continue to expand to carry the aspirations of the millions of French people mobilized in the streets in order to push back the government," said Mayor Jean-Luc Laurent (MRC).

With the exception of the municipal local police and home care services, all services will be closed from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

This Friday, the mobilization against the pension reform will take the form of a public meeting in Boissy-Saint-Léger (Tohu-Bohu room at 4C boulevard de la Gare), at the initiative of the whole left.

To feed the exchanges, around the mayor Régis Charbonnier (PS) are expected the deputy of the constituency Louis Boyard (LFI) and the ecologist MEP Marie Toussaint.