The left marches in Paris to raise the social temperature

Let’s walk, let’s walk! Thousands of people began marching in Paris on Sunday for a “march against high prices and climate inaction”, organized by Nupes. A hundred buses were chartered from all over France for this march supported by associations and certain trade union federations.

With his fist raised, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, red tie and tricolor cockade on the lapel of his jacket, took his place alongside the Nobel Prize for Literature Annie Ernaux in the head square of the event, which started a little late. at 2:30 p.m.

We found in the middle of the flags a number of LFI deputies like Manuel Bompard, Alexis Corbière, Clémentine Autain, the number one of the PS Olivier Faure, the ecologists Sandrine Rousseau and Eric Piolle, and even Philippe Poutou (NPA).

“A great popular balance of power”

“There is something waking up and that’s a very good sign,” said MP LFI Clémence Guetté. “Social heat wave, the people are thirsty for justice”, could we read on a sign held up near the Place de la Nation. “We really need to have a great popular balance of power in the face of this government’s policy of social and ecological mistreatment”, launched in the morning the leader of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot.

The Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal castigated him “a march of supporters of the blocking of the country”. The march comes amid a strike at TotalEnergies refineries, which is causing fuel shortages. And after the mobilization of September 29, another interprofessional day was launched for Tuesday by the CGT, with FO, Solidaires, FSU as well as youth movements. Some 30,000 demonstrators are expected by the police.