It is a proven Minister of Labor, with a damaged voice, who concluded the debates on the pension reform in the Assembly, at midnight Friday evening. The culmination of two weeks of chaotic debates, Olivier Dussopt reserved his last words for the Insoumis, who left the room singing “We are here, we are here”, during his speech.
“We are now coming to the end of our discussions. (…) In compliance with the Constitution, our debates must now come to an end. The deadline ends tonight, he begins, before raising his voice. “The 20,500 amendments tabled by the Nupes will have prevented our Assembly from completing the examination of the text. »
“The government cannot prolong the examination of the text without reducing the time that the Senate must have. The government will seize the Senate of the text which it initially presented, modified by the amendments voted ”, continues Olivier Dussopt under the applause of the presidential camp, while the deputies of Nupes leave the hemicycle.
Seeing the Insoumis leave, the minister explodes: “You go out, but you insulted me (for) 15 days, no one cracked! Nobody cracked and we are here in front of you, for reform,” he shouted, his face flushed with anger. His shaking hands betray the mountain of tension he has been under since the start of the proceedings.
Insulted and threatened
Because for two weeks, the Minister of Labor has not been spared. “You are an impostor and an assassin” launched Aurélien Saintoul, LFI deputy for Hauts-de-Seine on Monday. “The word too much” for Olivier Dussopt, very affected personally. After a brief suspension of the session, several group leaders condemned these remarks made by the deputy, who ended up apologizing.
VIDEO. Dussopt treated as “murderer” by an LFI deputy, who apologizes after a suspension of the session
More worrying, his police protection was reinforced after death threats against him. The number of police officers responsible for the Minister’s security, as part of his work but also in his free time, increased from one to three at the start of the week.
Elected officials and supporters have even published on the JDD website a forum “of support” for the minister. They denounce the attacks there, including the “macabre tweet” of the LFI deputy, Thomas Portes, foot on a soccer ball bearing his image.
VIDEO. “You want my head? “, reacts Dussopt to the controversial photo of an LFI deputy
Another blow. And while a deputy insulted him (“You are useless”), Olivier Dussopt could not help but retort, furious: “What do you want? You want my head as your colleague? Do you want to continue in the violence? Do you want to pose with my severed head too? »