Organizational problems, investigation into the remuneration of the president of the organizing committee Tony Estanguet, and threat of strike action.
160 days before the start of the Paris Olympic Games, pressure is mounting on the organizers.
While the SNCF controllers' strike is in full swing this weekend and a thousand trains will be canceled between Friday and Sunday, Mathilde Panot encourages the mobilized agents to maintain the standoff.
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Invited Friday on BFM, the boss of LFI deputies even encouraged the French to strike before and during the Games against a government
“which only listens to the balance of power”
.
“
We must use the balance of power to the maximum
,” she insisted, five months before the Olympic deadline in the capital.
Additional pressure for the executive, while some are worried about the delay accumulated by the authorities as the fateful date approaches.
A government that goes “the opposite of all that is social progress”
Mathilde Panot did not hold back her blows against this government which
“hears nothing else, neither the vote of the Assembly, nor the biggest social movement in 50 years (against pension reform, editor’s note), nor all the strikes which are multiplying for the increase of wages”
, she exclaimed.
Worse still, according to her, it goes
“the opposite of all the social progress that has been taking place in our country for years and which was won by the strike.”
L'Insoumise unsurprisingly castigated the initiatives of parliamentarians from the right and the center who want to better regulate the right to strike and
“sanctuary”
days in the year for social movements.
“Do you realize what that means?
This means that there are certain days when you could not claim
,” she lamented.