After the examination of the text on the pension reform ended Friday evening at the Palais Bourbon, without discussions on the article pushing back the legal retirement age, La France insoumise (LFI) was at the heart of the criticisms , Sunday, February 19. The secretary general of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Philippe Martinez, attacked its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the program “BFM Politique”, who according to him does not “does not promote the clarity of the debates”.
Mr. Martinez regretted LFI’s strategy of maintaining thousands of amendments, preventing the consideration of Article 7 on raising the legal age to 64, while stressing “a responsibility of the government which has chosen an accelerated procedure”. “The fact of not having gone to article 7 so that everyone can display their position is a problem”he noted. “We had to put the deputies, each deputy, before their responsibilities. »
“Through many incidents – let’s put it that way – we talked more about these incidents than the substance of the problem and what is being debated in the street” with the union mobilization, he said, pointing “political forces [qui] try to replace trade unions and put themselves forward in relation to [à] those who parade in the street”. And to criticize the will again “sometimes on the benches of the National Assembly and particularly of La France insoumise, to appropriate the social movement to relegate the unions to the background”.
Mr. Mélenchon reacted directly to Mr. Martinez’s remarks in the afternoon: “Let’s forget these divisive remarks. Thank you to the MPs who blocked the adoption of retirement at 64”does he have wrote on his Twitter account. The former presidential candidate called for “to be united” pour “succeed on March 7”date of the next mobilization day, as well as at “broaden the front of commitment and not stunt it”.
On Sunday, the national secretary of the Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, for his part called on the left-wing coalition to “to be inspired” of the inter-union unity.
“No other will than to hurt and damage”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party is also the target of bitter accusations in the ranks of the presidential majority. BIA has “missed everything” in the National Assembly, thus estimated on Sunday, on Radio Jthe Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, who also attacked ” violence “ of the left-wing party.
“LFI has missed everything in this debate: not an amendment adopted, the Nupes is fractured, half of the socialists have deserted the ranks so they were ashamed. Their strategy didn’t work, their tactics didn’t work and they gave the worst image of themselves. Violence is a hallmark of LFI, with the desire to exacerbate divisions, to create conflict between differences. The goal is to delegitimize those who have responsibilities, the institutions in a kind of pseudo-revolutionary movement. There is no other will than to hurt and damage. »
The minister said he was personally hurt by the attacks that targeted him during the debates, and in particular that of LFI deputy Aurélien Saintoul. “When you are called an assassin in a hemicycle, it is hurtful”he said, adding: “it’s the word too much”et “it cannot be forgiven”. LFI deputies “have demonstrated their uselessness, their ability to damage rather than build”insisted Mr. Dussopt, saying he was eager for the debates to begin in the Senate, where the left is “a republican left”.