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The unions are mobilizing this Thursday for purchasing power. While this theme is making a strong comeback in the presidential campaign, the day will be marked by a social movement to demand wage increases. Some 170 rallies and parades will take place across France at the call of the CGT, FO, FSU and Solidaires unions.
“We really think we are doing a lot more than October 5,” predicts Céline Verzeletti, CGT confederal leader. This day of interprofessional mobilization brought together 85,400 people, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The only discordant note in this unit: the CFDT, according to which “the tote does not work”, will organize its own movement on February 3.
With its own problems in the corner of its head with the Americans around the question of Taiwan, China has just given its support to Moscow in the Ukrainian crisis. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended Russia’s “reasonable concerns” for its security on Thursday during a telephone conversation with his American counterpart Antony Blinken.
“We call on all parties for calm, to refrain from heightening tensions and escalating the crisis,” Wang Yi said. A new player, also a heavyweight in the geopolitical game, has therefore just entered the arena to participate in the showdown.
This is the big day for the popular Primary. From this Thursday and until Sunday, 467,000 people are called upon to choose which candidate should represent the left in the presidential election. Voters will start from the beginning of the sentence: “To win ecology and social justice in the presidential election, I believe that each of these personalities would be…”.
For each of the personalities presented (Anna Agueb-Porterie, Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot, Pierre Larrouturou, Charlotte Marchandise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Christiane Taubira), they will have to answer “very well”, “well”, “fairly well”, ” passable” or “insufficient”. Problem: the result is currently only recognized by a major candidate, Christiane Taubira.