Pension reform: threats of targeted cuts of gas and electricity divide right and left

The CGT Federation of Mines and Energy presented a “battle plan” against the government’s project, providing in particular “targeted cuts” and “production cuts”.

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The targeted cuts envisaged by the CGT Federation of Mines and Energy (FNME-CGT) against elected officials who would support the pension reform, divide the political class between the right, which denounces “illegal methods”, and the left, which judges them non-violent. The CGT Mines-Energie presented on January 13 a “battle plan” to obtain the “outright withdrawal” from the government’s project, which plans to postpone the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years. This plan provides for a “resumption in hand of the work tool in all its forms”: “Electricity and gas recovery to the most precarious, free energies, targeted cuts, production cuts” …

“These are illegal methods, methods that come out of the rule of law”, Office on Europe 1 Bruno Retailleau , the boss of the Senators Les Républicains (LR), which supports the pension reform. “I call the state to firmly sanction this kind of actions. I do not give in under the threat,” he assured, after the declarations of the secretary general of the FNME-CGT, Sébastien Menesplier, affirming “Take care of” elected officials who support the reform.

President LR des Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, for whom it is an “accounting” reform, made similar remarks on franceinfo : “The strike is a right recognized by the Constitution. The abuses of the right to strike are not.” “If such practices are operated, I Ask the government to take the necessary sanctions and the companies concerned too, “he demanded.

” The limit is violence “

On the left, on the other hand, the tone is different: “Do not count on me to start to denigrate, or to attack the union organizations”, replied on CNews Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of the France Insoumise (LFI). “It is not violence, it,” he said, explaining that she “always supported all forms of actions from the moment they did not cross a threshold-which seems to me necessary not to cross As part of a democratic debate – which is violence against people and against goods. “

On LCI, environmental deputy Sandrine Rousseau was on the same line: “On the ways of mobilizing, me, the limit is violence, that is to say that it is Not violent, all the ways to mobilize are good, she insisted. And even if they are disobedient, they are good, yes. “

/Media reports cited above.