“It must be recognized that the pension reform will require efforts from millions of French people”, recognized the deputy in the Grand Jury LCI-RTL-Le Figaro, “the idea is not to show the muscles”.
Asked about the mobilization against the text, with a first day of strike and demonstrations scheduled for January 19, she however assured that the reform "will be adopted and come into force".
She promised that "the French will not have the double penalty" of having "the penalization of strikes which can profoundly upset their daily lives", and "on the other hand, of having parliamentarians who will not have the courage to take on this reform. We will have the courage to take it on and go all the way".
The MP said she did not want to "prevent the right to strike".
"On the other hand, we have a minimum service that exists in transport and which must be exercised at the RATP and the SNCF, and we have a minimum reception service at school and I ask the communities to be particularly mobilized" .
"This right to strike is not a right to block", nor "a right to hinder the French who want to go to work", she repeated.
"If we have to go further" to modify the minimum service law, "we will be ready to do so", she warned.
She hopes for "a healthy and serene debate" in the Assembly and the Senate, stressing that the Palais Bourbon "is a place that respects itself, it's not a ZAD, it's a place that respects the laws of the Republic ".
The national secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier, called on Tuesday to transform the National Assembly into a "zone to defend" to oppose the pension reform, "in compliance with the internal regulations".
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