Paris (AFP)

The leader of the rebels Jean-Luc Mélenchon asked Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, if he has "something in his stomach" and to "bring the temperature down", to organize a referendum on pension reform.

"If the president had something in his stomach, given the state in which the country is, he would call a referendum", launched on France 2 the president of the group of deputies LFI.

"If we want to bring the temperature down, it is time for the President of the Republic to come to more democratic methods", he explained, while the LFI deputies have launched for three days in an obstruction parliamentary representative in the special commission on pensions.

"If he insists on this reform at all costs because he thinks it is good for the country, that he realizes that people do not want it, while he is organizing for example a referendum", a he insisted.

"We will table a referendum motion in Parliament and we will see if the Republic on the march, in a moment of clairvoyance, will say: + come on, let's solve the problem like that, let's go to a referendum! +", Said the deputy.

The referendum motion, which requires 58 signatures, was put on the table by the Communists.

The leader of the rebels also repeatedly called for the filing by the three left groups (LFI, PCF, PS) of a censure motion against the government.

Asked whether the mobilization was running out of steam as opponents of the pension reform were to take to the streets again on Thursday, Mr. Mélenchon warned: "They have returned (at home) but rage in the heart and in the country a wave of rejection of this reform has spread and therefore at the end we will have the last word, because people will not forget, they will not forgive ".

According to the deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, LFI therefore intends to make "resistance" to Parliament, "until the moment when they take an electoral beating at the municipal level, which perhaps will make them think and make them say: we stop".

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