Europe 1 with AFP 5:12 p.m., January 21, 2023, modified at 5:17 p.m., January 21, 2023

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of rebellious France, attacked Emmanuel Macron during the march for pension reform organized this Saturday in Paris.

He estimated, from the roof of the rally organizers' truck, that the head of state wanted to "transform our entire existence into merchandise". 

The leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon said "curse" Emmanuel Macron whom he accuses of wanting to "transform our whole existence into merchandise", Saturday during a harangue to the crowd marching against the pension reform in Paris.

"Be cursed for wanting to transform our entire existence into merchandise (...) dirty everything, spoil everything, reduce everything, quantify everything", launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon from the roof of the truck of the organizers of the demonstration.

"We are defending the right to live fully and humanely in a free time, in a self-chosen time. And what do they want to do? What they want to do all the time, which is to transform any living or inanimate thing into merchandise", insisted the former presidential candidate, present alongside the dozen youth organizations that had called for this march.

“We are going to block society, paralyze the economy”

According to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the decline in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 will "not make a single person work, I know that".

"It will be more unemployed people, more sick people, and above all less life," he pleaded.

"They say 'we have to work more', for what? The key to the future is not to produce more, disposable. But to produce better, and to do it you have to work less", further argued the Unsubmissive.

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The spokesman of the New Anti-Capitalist Party Olivier Besancenot for his part called on the demonstrators to be "activists of the general strike. We are going to block society, paralyze the economy", he chanted, while the project of law must be presented Monday in the Council of Ministers.

"Something is happening, there is something resembling past mobilizations where we are winning", assured Olivier Besancenot again, two days after a demonstration which had already brought together one to two million demonstrators, according to estimates. of the police or the CGT.