While the pension reform will be presented on January 10 to the French, Olivier Faure considers that "the risk" for the allies of Nupes, "is that of withdrawal, of + everyone at home +".
"We must open a new sequence, begin the mobilization against the decline in the legal retirement age", he explains, assuring that "we are united. In the discussions I have with each other the others, I see everyone's journey".
"In the coming days", he continues, "we will be ready to mobilize together. We can make the government back down as it has already backed down on unemployment insurance", adds the first secretary.
"Common battles, participation in social movements, will contribute to the rapprochement of positions. In the fight on pensions we will be in the same trench", he assures, while the partners of the alliance are to meet on Thursday to tune their violins on the issue.
Regarding the idea of a retirement at age 60 at the full rate for all after forty years of contribution, as indicated in the Nupes agreement, he specifies that all of the Nupes formations are "in the process of working again at what will be our common project".
"The debate is not yet settled", he explains, but he leans for a "return to 60 years but without touching the contribution period".
Olivier Faure, who defends the idea of a common candidacy of the left for the presidential election of 2027, first wants "a coalition project that binds us".
"From the month of February, if the members renew their confidence in me, I will engage in major thematic conventions allowing us to put forward our proposals to strengthen the project of the left and respond to the concerns of the French", he specifies.
As for the Europeans, of 2024, he underlines that "at each deadline, we must ask ourselves the question of whether what we have in common justifies a common candidacy. We will not compromise on our European commitment".
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