According to the left, the government’s project arouses “unprecedented social mobilization”, so much so that “a referendum is a real democratic obligation”.
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On the initiative of the Communists, a hundred deputies from the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) filed a request for referendum on the pension reform project. This “referendum motion”, which must be debated by the assembly on February 6, aims to suspend the examination of the government project which must start that day in the hemicycle, to “give the floor to the people on this crucial choice For its future “, according to a press release from the left alliance released Tuesday, January 24.
strongly opposed to the postponement to 64 years of the legal retirement age, like the whole of the left alliance, the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, assured on Tuesday on CNews that “the government has chosen blocking and confrontation”. “We have to get out from the top of this crisis. This is the reason why we propose to give the floor to the people and do so by the way to a referendum,” he insisted. According to him, “98 left -wing deputies” filed the motion.
The four leaders of the Nuts at the Assembly signed it: André Chassaigne (PCF), Mathilde Panot (La France Insoumise), Boris Vallaud (Socialist Party) and Cyrielle Chatelain (Europe Ecologie-les Verts) . The government’s project “arouses the opposition of an overwhelming majority of French women and unprecedented social mobilization”, they justified in the presentation of the reasons, where they consider that “a referendum is a real Democratic obligation “.
The motion must still be deemed admissible to be able to be debated. If it was voted by the Assembly, which is far from being won, it would be immediately transmitted to the Senate, which should decide within thirty days. Even adopted by the two chambers, this is only a referendum proposal made to the President of the Republic, free to follow up or not.
The owner of deputies national rally, Marine Le Pen, announced on Monday that she would also file a referendum motion on pension reform. The president of the far -right party, Jordan Bardella, had pleaded little before for such a referendum, and assured that his party was going to present an alternative project concerning the pension system.