"The pension reform is very representative of what the President of the Republic and the government currently," said Martine Aubry, PS Mayor of Lille, in the Sunday program in politics , broadcast December 8 on France 3 North / Pas-de-Calais and France Bleu Nord. When asked about government reforms, she said they were brutal.
"Carry another project for our country"
"There is a brutality in this idea of 'I reform, I reform, I reform': we are currently touching on all that is the social pact that binds the French, in this period where any anguish," she said judge. The former Minister of Labor, who announced at the end of November his candidacy for a fourth term, however, assured not to come to Lille "to fight Emmanuel Macron". "My subject is not Emmanuel Macron but Lille and Lille and the ability we will have to find solutions, to exchange and to be able to carry another project for our country," she said.
"A difficult moment"
"I try to be consistent, it does not mean being straight in his boots and we do not change - we listen, we hear - but the consistency on my values," said Martine Aubry, believing that today, "we must really stay the course in a very difficult time where everyone changes position".
Asked why she chose to run for office, the mayor, who has been at the head of the city since 2001, said she had "never done anything in her life for mere duty". "If I'm leaving, it's with energy and enthusiasm," she said.