“I will never say that the mobilization must be stopped,” promised Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Grand Jury Sunday Guest RTL / LCI / Le Figaro, he said that “the fight will continue regardless of the result” of the motions of censure which will be examined Monday in the National Assembly.
“As long as the reform at 64 is proposed, we must continue” the mobilization on pensions, judged the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) while warning that “power is counting on excesses to enjoy a situation of fear “. Asked about the violence, he stressed that “not once has this text acquired any form of parliamentary legitimacy”.
“A remarkable pacifism”
But for him, “the movement is calm, you don’t know what a violent movement is”, he told journalists on set, referring to May 68. “This movement is calm and a remarkable pacifism”, added the ex-candidate for the Elysée Palace.
“Lately, we had had a more respectful practice” of maintaining order, he said, but “it seemed to me that we were going back to much more brutal things”, he said. he also deplored, referring in particular to the demonstration in Place d’Italie in Paris on Saturday. For him, it’s time to show “cold blood”. “We have no interest in going to a pitched battle,” he hammered again. “We who are fighting against this law have a message to send to our friends. Do not make the struggle invisible through practices that would turn against us,” he asked.
Regarding the cross-partisan motion of censure by the independent group Liot, he “thinks that Les Républicains will vote for it”. “To vote for censorship is to reset the counters to zero,” 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”.
“No need for an alternative majority”
LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard also calls on LR deputies to vote for censure: “Whatever you think of this reform, what we are asking you is ‘do you agree with the method, with this permanent passage in force “, he explained to Cnews / Europe1 / les Echos.
“When we vote for a motion of censure in France together, there is no need to have an alternative majority, so it is not because opposition groups are going to vote for this motion of censure that they are ready to govern the country together”, specified the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, thus responding to the attacks of the presidential majority.