"The struggle will continue whatever the result" of the motions of censure that will be examined Monday in the National Assembly, said the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) to the Grand Jury RTL / LCI / Le Figaro, recalling that "the united unions have called for actions all week and a large demonstration Thursday".
"I will never say that we must stop the mobilization, as long as the reform at 64 is proposed, we must continue," he insisted.
Asked about the violence, he stressed that "not once has this text acquired any form of parliamentary legitimacy."
But for him, "the movement is calm, you do not know what a violent movement is," he explained to journalists on set, referring to May 68. "This movement is of a calm and a remarkable pacifism," added the former candidate to the Elysee.
"In recent times we had a more respectful practice" of policing, he said, but "it seemed to me that we were returning to much more brutal things," he also lamented, referring in particular to the demonstration Place d'Italie in Paris on Saturday.
For him, this is the time to show "cold blood". "We have no interest in going to a pitched battle," he said.
"We who are fighting against this law have a message for our friends. Do not make the struggle invisible by practices that would turn against us," he asked.
Because the former deputy believes that "the power of Mr. Macron counts on the excesses to then enjoy a situation of fear".
However, he says he refuses "to come here to lecture people", and notes that "the French people are not a people who are made to walk at the whistle".
Regarding the transpartisan motion of censure of the independent group Liot, he "thinks that The Republicans will vote for it".
"To vote for censure is to reset the counters," he said, assuring that there would be no dissolution of the Assembly by Emmanuel Macron. "He would take the beating of the century, therefore, he will not do it."
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