LIVE – Pensions: Mélenchon accuses Macron of “wanting to turn everything into merchandise”

The former leader of rebellious France finally spoke during the youth march against pension reform. He deplored the policy of Emmanuel Macron which aims to “dirty everything, reduce everything, quantify everything”.

“This is what you want to do Mr. Macron, be cursed for wanting to turn everything into merchandise,” he said.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon concluded his speech: “Long live life, down with death.”

“We are delighted to be with the youth for this initiative”, declared the president of the LFI-NUPES group to the National Assembly.

From the Parisian procession of the youth march against the pension reform, the rebellious MP recalled at the microphone of BFMTV that “the youth of the country was particularly concerned” by an “unfair and cruel” reform.

She also hailed a “great success”.

Present at the youth march against the pension reform, supported by rebellious France, Alexis Corbière, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis said on BFMTV that it was necessary to “give the floor to youth”.

“There are young people who are worried about the climate issue, which comes from an economic system that is destroying the planet. The issue of pensions is an illustration of this. The country has never been so rich,” he said. it develops.

Alexis Corbière then concluded: “If we share, we will live better and we will save the planet.

“The Nupes united with the youth rally against the pension reform”, tweeted Sabrina Sebaihi, Nupes deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and regional co-secretary of EELV in Île-de-France.

In the photo that accompanies her tweet, the elected official poses alongside Sandrine Rousseau, also an environmentalist deputy, but also LFI deputies Paul Vannier and Carlos Martens Bilongo.

A strong image because Europe Ecology-The Greens did not call to go to this youth march supported by rebellious France, even if several elected EELV had announced to participate.

Young people demonstrate in the streets of Paris against the pension reform. A dozen youth associations make up the procession that goes to Place de la Nation from Place de la Bastille.

Among them is the Student Alternative. She deplores the gradual decline in the legal retirement age.

“Retirement at 64, we don’t want it”, launched Emy, secretary of the movement, on BFMTV.

She added: “You’re a precarious student at 20, you’re unemployed at 30, still precarious at 64 and probably dead before we even retire.”

While the procession has just set off from the Place de la Bastille, three people were arrested for carrying a prohibited weapon, BFMTV learned from the police headquarters.

At 2:15 p.m., around 1,700 checks have already been carried out by the police during this demonstration against the pension reform organized by a dozen youth organizations, supported by La France insoumise in particular.

Thursday, in Paris, during the demonstration organized by the unions, 38 people were arrested in particular for carrying a prohibited weapon, contempt and rebellion, throwing projectiles and damage.

Initially scheduled for 2 p.m., the start of the youth demonstration against the pension reform was delayed by fifteen minutes.

The rally is supported by La France insoumise. While we are waiting, during the afternoon, for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, it is, for the moment, the deputy of Val-de-Marne Louis Boyard who has placed himself at the head of the procession.

“We are part of a generation that will be without pensions,” he said on BFMTV.

The insubordinate deputy of France from Val-de-Marne highlighted on her Twitter account the demonstrators who came “from all over France” to demonstrate this Saturday afternoon in Paris against the pension reform.

“Since this morning, by bus, by train, on foot, by car, from all over France, they arrive at Place de la Bastille in Paris!”, She said.

She gave “meeting in less than an hour” to supporters of the mobilization against the pension reform.

The departure of the procession brought together by a dozen youth organizations, supported by LFI, will be given at 2 p.m.

Also on Franceinfo this morning, Stanislas Guerini considered that the demonstration of young people against the pension reform “means that it is absolutely necessary to continue to convince”.

He calls on students and high school students “not to be exploited”, pointing in particular to the role of La France insoumise. “She is in reality today extremely pushed by La France insoumise which very often wants to recover her”, he concluded.

Invited this morning on the set of BFMTV, MEP LFI Manon Aubry described a “Macronie” which “is cracking”.

The latter denounces a “passage in force” while the government is relying on recourse to article 47-1, allowing the accelerated adoption of the pension reform bill.

“Who takes the French hostage? It’s an elitist minority who knows nothing about hardship,” she decried.

Stanislas Guerini assures this morning on Franceinfo that a third of the savings generated by the new pension reform will be used for the development of everyone’s careers.

Of the 17.7 billion euros in savings targeted by 2030, six billion euros will be dedicated to “correcting injustices”, he said, stressing that “it is without comparison with the reforms previous retreats.

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The leader of the CGT Philippe Martinez to pester on BFMTV: “This is not the time to divide. Given the mobilization of Thursday, everyone understood what is the important date of the week”.

Unef, the main student union, will not participate in this parade, preferring a “united trade union front to organize the struggle as broadly as possible”, justifies Imane Ouelhadj, its president.

The organizers do not intend to bring together the million or two million demonstrators – according to estimates by the police or the CGT – who beat the pavement on Thursday January 19 throughout France.

But Philippe Juraver, head of LFI’s “struggle network”, “hopes to do better than in October”, a reference to the “march against the high cost of living” organized by the mélenchonistes and which had drained 140,000 participants according to the organizers , 30,000 according to the police.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon and several deputies and elected LFI will be present in the procession.

For the former LFI presidential candidate, young people – whose contribution could be decisive in bringing the government back – know “very well that the change in lifestyle that retirement entails will change life immediately. , now”.

To justify the organization of another action, two days after that of the unions, Jean-Luc Mélenchon indicated that “all that converges, all that goes in the same direction”.

The left alliance Nupes does not unanimously support the initiative: EELV, PCF and PS believe that the unions should be left to their own devices. “We cannot afford the luxury of competition in our social camp”, however pleads the NPA, which will send in the procession its spokespersons Olivier Besancenot and Pauline Salingue.

The parade, declared in the prefecture, must leave at 2 p.m. on the place de Bastille to join the place de Nation, via the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine. Security services are provided to supervise the demonstrators.

Hello everyone and welcome to this direct dedicated to “the march for our pensions” initiated by several youth associations, such as France insoumise.

A dozen youth associations (L’Alternative Étudiante, VoixLycéenne, FIDL, Jeune Garde, Jeunes Insoumis, Jeunes Écologists, Jeunes Génération s, Place Publique Jeunes, RED Jeunes, POI, NPA Jeunes) are calling for demonstrations against the reform presented on January 10 by the government of Elisabeth Borne.

They also call for the end of Parcoursupthe orientation reform after the baccalaureate implemented in 2018 – and solutions against student precariousness.

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