Pensions: Tondelier and Faure reiterate to Borne their request for "withdrawal" of the reform

Europe 1 with AFP 19:21 p.m., April 04, 2023

The national secretary of the ecologist party EELV Marine Tondelier, received Tuesday by Elisabeth Borne, warned the Prime Minister that "without withdrawal" of her pension reform, "there would be no peace". "He was told that there would be no peace without withdrawal. And when I say that, it's not a threat on my part, it's the facts, it's the state of mind of the country," Marine Tondelier said after her interview, on the eve of a meeting of Elisabeth Borne with the unions. "I think we are at an impasse and that as long as there is no withdrawal on this measure of 64 years, we will not move on," added the ecologist leader.

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Tondelier claims to have alerted Borne to threats

The First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, received in turn by the Prime Minister to evoke the "general situation" of the country, said on his arrival that he would ask for "the withdrawal" of the reform. "Today there is a democratic blockage, so we came to ask for the withdrawal. And if there is no withdrawal, we must give the floor back to the French," he said before his meeting.

In addition, Marine Tondelier said she had "alerted a lot" the head of government "on the fact that there is an upsurge (...) threats and intimidation against environmentalists, not because of what they do, but also because of what is said about them all day long, including at the highest level of the state." She alluded to recent remarks by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denouncing the "intellectual terrorism of the far left" and associating the left-wing alliance Nupes with "the ultra-left of the 70s".

Darmanin "cannot be an arsonist and add fuel to the fire"

The Minister of the Interior "cannot be an arsonist and add fuel to the fire". "It will have to stop because there will eventually be a death," warned the national secretary of EELV. "We need political leaders at the highest level of the state to have a discourse of appeasement and stop presenting as terrorists all those who are on their left, that is to say in the case of Gerald Darmanin a lot of people," she insisted.

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On the revived controversy of the maintenance of order after the clashes between gendarmes and opponents of water reservoirs (basins) on March 25 in the Deux-Sèvres, she asked Elisabeth Borne "a convention, a consultation, where we can sit and talk about the doctrine of the maintenance of French order". EELV denounced the dissolution of the environmental collective Soulèvements de la Terre, which co-organized the demonstration.