Paris (AFP)
Republican President Christian Jacob blasted Saturday, just days before the mobilization of December 5, the "false promises" and "bitter failure of the method" Emmanuel Macron to reform pensions.
"December 5th is a bitter failure of the method," said Jacob in the opening speech of the National Council of LR in Paris.
He lamented "the errors, the inability to reform" Emmanuel Macron, whose speech could "resonate rather gently in the ears of our readers right".
In the morning, the MEP LR François-Xavier Bellamy had found "a bit absurd to do a preventive strike" on pensions while "we do not yet know the reform at stake".
The mobilization against the proposed merger of 42 existing pension plans into a "universal" point system is expected to be massive next Thursday, while the CGT, FO, the FSU and Solidaires called for an interprofessional strike. The movement should be particularly followed in transport, especially in Île-de-France, because of the call for an indefinite strike at the RATP and the SNCF.
For Mr. Jacob, "it is at this particular moment when the masks are falling for the President of the Republic".
But "it is not only on the weaknesses of the opponent that will win," he warned, while the Republicans, who fell to 8.5% of the vote in the European, struggling to leave the crisis where they are plunged for several years.
"We will once again be credible, audible, from the moment we can rebuild a project alternation," he added, calling for "substantive work" in the context of twelve "thematic forums" unveiled at the Advice.
"We will not lower our heads, shave the walls, curl up, but instead open the doors and windows," he said.
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