On the eve of the national mobilization of January 19, a hundred intellectuals are protesting against the pension reform.

Nobel literature winner Annie Ernaux, actress Adèle Haenel, actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin and writer Nicolas Mathieu are among the signatories of a column published on Wednesday by the left-wing weekly Politis.

The signatories express their "determination to fight this archaic and terribly unequal reform project", on the eve of the interprofessional demonstrations against this measure.

"The reform will hit hardest those who work in the most difficult, exhausting jobs - both physically and psychologically - and who are less likely to enjoy a peaceful retirement and imagine a future after 64," say assert the signatories.

According to the signatories, Macron wants to "seduce the right"

"The objective, contrary to social history, is to make women and men work more and longer, who aspire to rest and to give free rein to their projects in a privileged moment of life", they continue. about this reform, which plans to push back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

According to these personalities marked on the left, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron thus wants "to seduce the right to create a majority that the ballot boxes did not give him".

Among the signatories are also the economists Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty, the actresses Ariane Ascaride and Corinne Masiero, the musician Dominique A, the humorist Guillaume Meurice or the host Valérie Damidot.

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