A “symbol of social violence” of the Bayrou finances, for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “an attack on our history”, estimates the RN | EUROtoday

More than twenty years after the Pentecost Monday conversion throughout the day of solidarity, labored however not paid, the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, proposed Tuesday July 15, throughout the presentation of his plan for the 2026 finances, that “Two public holidays are deleted for the whole country”. He quoted on Easter Monday and May 8, whereas saying to himself “Ready to accept other ideas”. By rising productiveness, the measure would report “Several billion” on the state finances.

“Easter Monday has no religious meaning”recalled the top of presidency, whereas this date is a vacation in additional than 100 international locations on the planet. On the May 8, thought-about the anniversary of the Allies’ victory in 1945, turned a commemoration day in 1946, then a vacation from 1953 till 1959. President François Mitterrand had restored public vacation in 1981.

The concept instantly made the CGT primary leap, Sophie Binet, who judged that deleting the May 8 could be “Very serious”. “We are not talking about anything, we are talking about the abolition of May 8, the day of victory against Nazism. While the extreme right is at the gates of power (…) The Prime Minister announces that he will delete May 8. It’s extremely serious “she deplored to the France-Presse agency (AFP).

“General de Gaulle abolished the May 8 and it seems to me that he was rather invested in victory against Nazism”quipped the Minister Delegate in charge of Europe, Benjamin Haddad on X.

The boss of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, criticized a “Provocation” And “A direct attack on our history, against our roots, and against France of work”. “No RN deputy will accept” This proposal, he planned on his account X.

For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of rebellious France (LFI), this measure is the ” symbol “ of the “Social violence of the Bayrou plan”. “The list of punctures on the achievements of our people is equal to the fact that the very rich are exempt from paying, he believes in a message on X. The two holidays abolished equal the income of the wealth tax that Macron prohibits restoring. “All this deserves censorship without illusions or palaver”, concludes Mr. Mélenchon.

“Racking in organized gang”

François Bayrou considered that the “May [était] Become a real Gruyère, where we jump from bridges in leave viaduct ». “These are proposals, I am ready to accept or examine others”he added, during a press conference-boycotted by the unions (CFDT, CGT, FO and CFE-CGC)-during which he unveiled the major orientations of the 2026 budget, financial and political puzzles targeting nearly 44 billion euros in savings.

The removal of two holidays “Isn’t the same thing at all” that“A day of solidarity which we would not really check if it is accomplished or not, and which would only translate into samples from companies”also insisted the head of government, saying that he wanted “Fight” THE “Disenchanting in the face of work”. “You have to work more, the whole nation must work more to produce and (…) so that the situation of France improves ”he insisted.

“François Bayrou therefore proposes that the May 8, who commemorates the victory against Nazism, is no longer a holiday. We have to understand how exactly? “, pretended to question the leader of environmentalists, Marine Tondelier.

The leader of the Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, denounced on x a “Racking in organized gang”with the will to “Make us work for free”. “Remove the holiday of May 8, symbol of victory against the Nazis, and question our social model inherited from the National Council of Resistance … Bayrou is quite coherent, finally”, wrote on X Ian Brossat, senator (PCF) of Paris.

“All this for 2 billion euros?”reacted the deputy LFI Hadrien Clouet. While the only Arnault family has paid 3.1 billion dividends not taxed in 2024? While the shareholders diverted 100 billion last year? That large companies have affected 211 billion aid without any control, 60 “free working days in the name of solidarity”? To delete two holidays is above all to deprive hundreds of thousands of individuals of two household moments. “Let’s go how far they’re able to go to soak up our pockets to provide to the wealthy “, Added Clémence watched, MP LFI. “You must cease them”, she added.