A new refusal of dialogue for Matignon. Environmentalists decline the proposal for a meeting with Elisabeth Borne to discuss the post-pension reform, judging that the country must be “appeased” by the withdrawal or at least the suspension of the project, they indicated on Saturday to the ‘AFP, joining the boycott of LFI and the PCF.
The leader of the EELV Marine Tondelier party as well as the bosses of the ecological groups in the Assembly and the Senate, Cyrielle Chatelain and Guillaume Gontard, refuse to “participate in the communication exercise” of the Prime Minister, charged by Emmanuel Macron with building a government program and a legislative program.
Élisabeth Borne invited from next week the parliamentary groups and parties in order to “appease the country” and “discuss with all the actors on the method”. But wanting to “turn the page” seems “above ground and disconnected from the state of nerves” of the French, believes Marine Tondelier, according to whom “the country is not ready for it and neither are we”.
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“We have to do things in the right order”, also considers Guillaume Gontard, recalling the meeting scheduled for Wednesday between the inter-union and the head of government, then the decision on April 14 of the Constitutional Council on the reform and the request for a referendum. shared initiative (RIP).
Cyrielle Chatelain recalls the “consultations” already carried out by Élisabeth Borne since last summer: each time it was a question of “staged the dialogue without ever listening and moving”. “The new method must be embodied” in the facts, she pleads. Within the left alliance Nupes, only the socialists have not yet made known their position on this new cycle of meetings at Matignon.
Communist parliamentarians are also at the initiative of a “republican procession” Tuesday morning, from the Assembly to the Elysee, to ask the president to withdraw the reform. Ecologists should not join in, not wanting to “leave it to one man” but rather to rely on “the institutions”. On the other hand, they ask for “an appointment in another setting with the Prime Minister to talk about the maintenance of order, the climate of violence against environmental activists and the necessary appeasement”.
The left, but also the League for Human Rights, the Syndicate of the Judiciary and again the Council of Europe, criticize the police response to the demonstrations against the pension reform or to the rally last weekend against the ” megabasins” in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), marked by violent clashes.