“It’s so dismissive and [is] misunderstanding the reality of the working world. He is no longer a President of the Republic, he is contemptuous of the Republic. PCF secretary general and deputy Fabien Roussel did not like Emmanuel Macron’s appeal for “common sense” the day before, concerning the raising of the retirement age. And he made it known on RMC-BFMTV. “He will see them with his smirk, tell them ‘it’s common sense’ to those who get up every day at 3 a.m.”, he regretted, referring to “the hardness of certain jobs “, “broken” bodies or the multiplication of musculoskeletal disorders.

The Head of State assured during a visit to the Rungis market of national interest on Tuesday to count on the “common sense” of the French and to assume “an angry truth” on the decline in the retirement age. retirement from 62 to 64, a crucial point in his much-contested reform.

Asked about the debate in the National Assembly which did not allow article 7 including this age measure to be addressed in the allotted time, Fabien Roussel “deeply” regretted that the Insoumis deputies had “made this choice of rot the debate”, maintaining thousands of amendments. “It is not our conception of parliamentary debate”, recalled the deputy from the North, for whom the interventions of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in favor of slowing down the debates so as not to reach Article 7, served “to hide the divisions” within La France insoumise.

He hoped to be able to “continue to work […], continue to be unifying” with the partners of Nupes, which he described as “a coalition with political parties […] which can agree on subjects, disagree on others”.

“It’s not the first time that we have had different tactical assessments,” replied LFI deputy Manuel Bompard on Public Sénat, welcoming the proposal by ecologist Sandrine Rousseau to move to “Act II” of Nupes.

This very close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, political coordinator of LFI, recalled various proposals already made to his ecologist, communist and socialist partners: create a single group in the Assembly, “create assemblies by cantons, by constituencies, by municipalities “, revive the “parliament of Nupes”, open to outside personalities, but also organize common lists for the next elections.

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