Another attack on Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. Comedians and directors, sociologists, trade unionists and lawyers and association and political leaders of the left are launching a petition demanding a referendum on the withdrawal of pension reform on Monday to "resolve" the "major democratic problem" that it poses according to them.
The petition, published in the left-wing daily L'Humanité , is online at Change.org. Among the signatories are notably the boss of the rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon (and many rebellious elected officials), the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou, the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, the demographer and historian Emmanuel Todd, the actress Jeanne Balibar, the writer Laurent Binet or the director Bertrand Tavernier.
The committee under pressure in the Assembly
They deplore in their text that at the National Assembly, where the reform is examined in committee, "everything is organized to circumvent the debate before the national representation and encourage parliamentarians to vote blind, with the programmed recourse step less than 29 prescriptions ".
The "level of distrust" with regard to this reform, with "more than two months of mobilization" and "a majority of French people who are still asking for withdrawal", "poses a major democratic problem", add the signatories.
"At this stage, only a popular consultation would resolve it," they say: "a referendum on the withdrawal of the government project must be organized so that the people have the last word."
Politicians, artists, trade unionists…
For a week, the special committee on pensions in the Assembly has been the scene of a permanent showdown between Insubmissive deputies and the majority, at the risk of stopping in the middle of the ford without having swept away the entire reform.
Among the other signatories to the petition, the vice-president of the Association of Mayors of France André Laignel, the PCF national secretary Fabien Roussel, the spokesperson for Droit au logement Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, the actors Bruno Gaccio and Corinne Masiero, sociologists Michel Pinçon and Monique Pinçon-Charlot, spokesperson for Attac Aurélie Found or even the workers' representative on the board of directors of the International Labor Organization Bernard Thibault.
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