Paris (AFP)
"Referendum": 15 Communist deputies formed the word by each wearing a red letter on a white t-shirt to request a consultation on pension reform, when the debates in the National Assembly were launched.
Fifteen deputies arrived grouped, room of the four columns, close to the hemicycle, each sporting a letter of the word "referendum" or the message "Let's vote!"
Their leader André Chassaigne, an "M" on the chest, announced that the referendum motion initiated by his group "has gathered enough signatures to be deposited in the niche that is allocated", before early evening Monday.
To table such a motion, it requires the signature of at least 58 deputies, who must "all be physically present in session at the time of tabling," he recalled last Thursday.
"We have the vast majority of people behind us" assured Mr. Chassaigne, assuring that "67% of French people want a referendum".
"Referendum, referendum, referendum," chanted the Communist elected officials one last time, before taking their seats in the hemicycle for at least two weeks of debate.
The Communist deputies multiply the actions of communication against the pension reform by points. On social networks, since February 11, the deputy of Seine-Maritime Sébastien Jumel publishes "painful portraits" where Emmanuelle the worker, Nathalie the sorter of glass or Christian the pontier tell their trades, under the slogan "No all the same hit points. "
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