RETIREMENTS, STRIKE AND ANGER OF MACRON

The 51st day of strike against the pension reform coincides with the examination, in the Council of Ministers, of the two draft laws which will then be submitted to the deputies. The bills relating to the establishment of a universal pension system have indeed been presented to the Council of Ministers.

The unions, mobilized for the 51st consecutive day, demonstrated and went on strike across France. The demonstrators were 1.3 million according to the CGT, including 350,000 in Paris while the authorities announced that more than 127,000 people marched in sixty cities outside Paris according to the police and the prefectures.

The next mobilization day is set for Wednesday, January 29, without the participation of the CFE-CGC.

Reacting to the social situation in France marked by the conflict over the pension reform, the Head of State vehemently denounced on the plane returning from Israel "the extraordinarily guilty political speeches" affirming that France has become a dictatorship, and thus justifying political and social violence: "Today has established itself in our society, and in a seditious manner, by extraordinarily guilty political speeches, the idea that we would no longer be in a democracy. That there is a form of dictatorship that has taken hold. ".

"Go into dictatorship, and you will see," continued the president at the microphone of Radio J.

"But go to dictatorship! Dictatorship is a regime where a person or a clan decides the laws. A dictatorship is a regime where you do not change the leaders, never. If France is that, try the dictatorship and you will see! Dictatorship justifies hatred. Dictatorship justifies violence in order to get out. But there is a fundamental principle in democracy: respect for others, the prohibition of violence, hatred to combat. "

After several punching actions in the previous days, Emmanuel Macron denounced "the acts of violence and the radicalism of certain blockages", calling "to the greatest firmness towards their perpetrators" according to remarks reported by Sibeth Ndiaye , government spokesperson, after the Council of Ministers. According to Mr. Macron, "all those who today remain silent on this subject are accomplices, today and for tomorrow, of the weakening of our democracy and our Republic".

Asked when he returned from Israel, where he participated in the commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi camp on Thursday, the French president also clarified to a colleague his analysis of anti-Semitism , which he linked to the economic crisis and social.

"All Western democracies are experiencing a crisis, and it is a crisis that is exacerbated by the great contemporary fears," he said, citing digital transformation and climate change.

According to him, "anti-Semitism is the most advanced form, each time the most radical of fear of the other".




Garett Skyport for DayNewsWorld