Paris (AFP)
The head of EELV ecologists Yannick Jadot asked Emmanuel Macron on Sunday to withdraw his pension plan because, according to him, "we no longer understand anything", but said he was against the "status quo" and for "fairer" reform.
"I say stop to the government's project," said Jadot on BFMTV. He added that he would go to the demonstration on January 9 against the reform project, after having been present at that of December 5.
"Given the extreme confusion in which all the French are", "I am asking today for the withdrawal of the project but the environmentalists are in no way satisfied with the status quo," he explained.
According to him, "we no longer understand anything. Every day we are told that a special regime which should have disappeared will be maintained because such a minister intervened".
"I call on the President of the Republic to say + our pension system must be fairer. We did not take into account the arduousness +" and therefore to withdraw its reform.
For Yannick Jadot, the project is "unfair but the current situation is unfair" too. It is therefore necessary, he estimated, "a new project. We are for the convergence of wage-earning in terms of regime" but on the "condition that it is not done on the principle of the lowest bidder".
For him, Edouard Philippe "really doesn't care about the point system" because "his subject is how we save on expenses".
Environmentalists are proposing, he continued, to create jobs to fill the boxes because "we do not have a problem of expenditure but of revenue".
"When we propose to invest massively in housing it is 130,000 jobs in two years, when we propose to leave pesticides, we install 200,000 peasants in our country", he detailed, also evoking "hundreds of thousands of jobs "that could be created by investing in renewable energy.
After a month on strike against the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron met on Monday the first Council of Ministers of 2020, opening a crucial week punctuated by the resumption Tuesday of difficult discussions with angry unions and two days of demonstrations Thursday and Saturday.
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