Paris (AFP)
Marine Le Pen said on Tuesday that it "perfectly understood" the day of interprofessional strike planned on December 5 against the pension reform, which it considers "unfair".
The trade union confederations CGT, FO, FSU and Solidaires have called for a "first day" of interprofessional strike on December 5th against the pension reform, joining several unions of the RATP - including the CFE-CGC - and the SNCF.
"I fully understand that there is a day of strike to come to express the disagreement that we have with a pension reform that I consider profoundly unfair and which will be an element of further precariousness of society," said BFMTV the President of the National Gathering.
"I agree with the idea that firefighters who can not work because they can not afford it, that caregivers who work in conditions that are apocalyptic, that a whole series of categories (?) come and say + you are not going to implement this pension reform because already we do not fare +, "added Marine Le Pen.
The far-right leader joined the assembly last week at a wild firefighting demonstration and on Sunday approved "on the merits" the demand of the railway workers to have "more personnel" while expressing her "disagreement" on the "shape" of the social movement last weekend.
She said she opposed this social movement at the SNCF because it "was not planned" but stressed that the strike "which does not bother anyone, it does not exist".
"If it's blocking, it's because of the government, if we've had the yellow jackets + and the blockages that have been the consequence, it's because the government refused to give in. So the government gives way, because the people are right to oppose the reforms proposed by Emmanuel Macron, "she added.
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