Paris (AFP)
Adrien Quatennens, number 2 of La France insoumise, estimated on Wednesday that a "form of radicalization of the movement" against pension reform "is inevitable as soon as the government intends to use force" on its reform.
Asked about the power outages, the deputy from the North replied on Public Senate: "I wish that the mobilization is always peaceful, peaceful, but the forms of actions on which you ask my assent are inevitable from as the government intends to forcibly continue to impose a bill. "
"I do not condemn them", he added, even if, he specified, "I for my part consider strategically that the condition of a favorable balance of power is that of numbers and that obtaining the threshold that allows for a balance of power by number requires forms of peaceful action. "
CGT Energie claimed a major power outage in the Orly and Rungis area early Tuesday morning.
"This form of radicalization of the movement is inevitable when the government intends to use force," insisted Adrien Quatennens, condemning "the government's stubbornness, its hard-line".
Edouard Philippe asked Tuesday, during questions to the government in the Assembly, that blockages, intrusions and "wild power cuts" to protest against the pension reform be "sanctioned".
"Wanting to block a certain number of sites, not respecting the law by breaking into such and such a private enclosure, carrying out savage power cuts, all of this is disregarding democracy, all of this is disregarding the law and all this must be punished because it is not acceptable, "said the Prime Minister.
"When Édouard Philippe calls for democracy, well I repeat, democracy is not: + vote and then shut up for five years! +", Replied Mr. Quatennens.
"The country is still in turmoil, the movement is not losing momentum and withdrawal is still the solution," he said.
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