While the contours of the government’s pension reform are taking shape, the socialist president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, denounced, in an interview with AFP, an “unfair” reform.
“There is no need to raise the retirement age. I am in favor of reworking the question of long careers and arduous work, it is not yet sufficiently taken into account. There is a real inequality in life expectancy between a worker and a manager. Retirement must be maintained at 62. The policies of the government are experienced as unfair and they are”, indicated the one who also chairs the association of the Regions of France.
She criticized Emmanuel Macron and his “incredible disconnection with reality”, indicating that there is “a deep divide between the President of the Republic and the French” who feel, according to her, “despised”.
“Always believed in the union of the left, that which acts, not that which is agitated”
To stick to people’s daily lives, she recalled that she was attached to the development of rail, pleading for “a change of scale on investment in the rail sector”. “I also propose that we create a rail Airbus at European level, that we can be, Europe and therefore France, the leaders of the train of tomorrow. It would be good for industrial sovereignty, for the climate and also good for purchasing power”, insisted the one who made “daily trains” a workhorse.
On the political level, the one who strongly criticized the alliance of the left around Nupes, repeated that, for her, “the left behind LFI, I do not believe that this is the future”. If she advocates the union of the left, Carole Delga envisages it through “a social project that meets needs, without getting lost in considerations of wokism or barbecue”.
“I share many analyzes with François Ruffin. We face the same desperation from RN voters. I was not for the Nupes in May, because the leader was Jean-Luc Mélenchon. I have always believed in the union of the left, but this left which acts, not that which is agitated”, she pleaded, indicating that she would not participate in the congress of her party, which is held from January 27 to 29, so as not to “be in a war of people, of chapels”. However, she recalled that she was “closer” to the proposals made by Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the mayor of Rouen, who wants to embody a third way between Olivier Faure and Hélène Geoffroy.