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Pension reform: La France Insoumise goes door to door to mobilize its support
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Demonstrators against the pension reform in Paris, France, February 16, 2023. © RFI / Aabla Jounaïdi
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The Senate continues to examine the pension reform until March 12.
Debates from which La France Insoumise (LFI) is absent, which has no elected representative in the Upper House.
The movement of the radical left has therefore withdrawn in recent days to actions on the ground.
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Tracts in hand, Jérôme Legavre crisscrosses the housing of this popular district of Château-Thierry a few tens of kilometers northeast of Paris, reports
Aurélien Devernoix
of the political service of RFI.
"
Hello Madam, I am a deputy for La France Insoumise and we are distributing this leaflet against Macron's pension reform
".
Talking about pension reform easily unties tongues: “
It's scary, we can't find the term.
It's unacceptable
, ”replied his interlocutor
.
"
It's true that there are more than 80% of people who consider this reform to be absolutely unacceptable...
", agrees Jérôme Legavre
.
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The objective of this door-to-door is to convince the French to mobilize for the day of March 7, which has become the heart of the rebellious strategy, for lack of presence in the Senate.
“
Obviously, parliamentary debates play a role, but the center of gravity of the whole situation is what will happen on March 7 and from March 7
”, assures the deputy
.
Positive reception
But if the reception is very largely positive, the noise and the fury deployed by LFI during the debates in the National Assembly have left some traces.
“
Yell to yell.
Apparently, to waste time and have passed the text to the Senate, that's all it did in fact
”, reproaches a citizen to Jérôme Legavre
.
“
Yes, but there is an achievement on the other hand.
It is that it did not go to the Assembly
, ”he resumes
.
In these low-rent apartments, it is above all the soaring prices that are worrying.
“
Everything has increased, it's more important for me than focusing on retirement…
”
.
A conjunction of anger on which La France Insoumise intends to rely, to be heard more outside Parliament.
Government under fire for its communication in recent days
“
It is a reform of the left
”.
By discovering the front page of the newspaper Le Parisien yesterday with this quote from the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, the parliamentarians of the Left are rightly shouting at each other.
"
It's provocation, cynicism, contempt for the French
," tweets the boss of socialist senators Patrick Kanner.
Already on Wednesday, speaking of an ecological disaster about the blockages, government spokesman Olivier Véran had drawn the wrath of the opposition.
Is there not fatigue in the air in the presidential camp or worse a desire to distort reality.
On the question of the number of beneficiaries of the pension at 1,200 euros in particular, another controversial subject.
Renaissance MP Marc Ferracci, close to Emmanuel Macron, made a
mea
culpa start on France Inter.
“
The reality is that there has been uncertainty on this subject.
Now, when I heard about lies around these subjects.
When you lie, and you lie deliberately, I don't think there is that will, absolutely not, ”assures the MP.
The Prime Minister will have a lot to do this Monday evening to rectify the situation.
On the eve of a mobilization that promises to be historic, Elisabeth Borne is the guest of the program
C'est à vous
, on France 5.
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