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Pensions: Anne Hidalgo denounces "a completely non-existent democracy" in France

2023-06-06T08:51:44.515Z

Highlights: EELV MEP Yannick Jadot slammed Emmanuel Macron's "illiberal drift" which reinforces "authoritarianism" On the fourteenth day of the mobilization against the pension reform, Anne Hidalgo draws up a "serious" observation. "We are in a system where there is a desire of the government not to listen," she justified. Jean-Luc Mélenchon also castigated "the omnipotence" of Emmanuel Macron. "With Mr. Macron, we are no longer really in the Republic, that's for sure," said Insoumis.


EELV MEP Yannick Jadot, for his part, slammed Emmanuel Macron's "illiberal drift" which reinforces "authoritarianism".


On the fourteenth day of the mobilization against the pension reform, Anne Hidalgo draws up a "serious" observation. "Democracy is non-existent in France," said the mayor of Paris on Tuesday, at the microphone of France inter. "Nobody voted for this pension law and everyone voted against the peril of the far right," she continued. To protest against the reform, the latter has also displayed two wink emoticons on the pediment of its town hall. However, the court asked him at the beginning of May to withdraw any message of support for the strikers. "We are in a system where there is a desire of the government not to listen," she justified, while the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, must decide shortly on the inadmissibility of the repeal of retirement at 64 years.

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Yannick Jadot did not go there either with a dead hand with the executive, invited at the same time on Public Senate. The EELV MEP denounced the "illiberal drift" of Emmanuel Macron, without however comparing the French situation to "Hungary or Poland". According to him, he does not prevent that there is "a bundle of action that reinforces authoritarianism": "When you crush parliamentary and social democracy, when you challenge the League of Human Rights and the counter-powers". And to warn the government: "When you go to the end of illiberalism, it is the extreme right".

Monday, already, in the columns of 20 minutes, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also castigated "the omnipotence" of Emmanuel Macron. "With Mr. Macron, we are no longer really in the Republic, that's for sure. But we are also leaving the framework of democracy," said the leader Insoumis. In question, the sequence of pensions which, according to him, flouted "all the fundamental rights consubstantial to the idea of Republic".

Source: lefigaro

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