Olivier Dussopt sat in the National Assembly in the ranks of the Socialist Party, from 2012 to 2017, before joining the new presidential majority embodied by Emmanuel Macron. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
The parliamentarians of the various left-wing parties quickly turned the words of the Minister of Labor into derision.
Olivier Dussopt now uses a new qualifier to designate the disputed pension reform. In an interview given to Parisian on Saturday, the Minister of Labor defended a reform “from the left», «which could have been supported by a social democratic government». «Compared to previous reforms, it creates rights that we did not know about, in particular on hardship and carers“, he assured.
«The last reform led by the left increased the contribution period, which constitutes a machine for small pensions“, Criticized again the member the member of the government, questioned on the most contested measure of the text, the postponement of the legal age of departure. “There will be no losers. Because the pensions will not go down. The reform requires efforts from the French. That yes. But we make sure they are distributed most fairly“, he added.
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Unsurprisingly, it only took a few hours for the amused reactions of the left to parade on social networks. This same left which, for several weeks, has been trying to present a united front to fight against the text defended by the executive. “He snapped again“, for example, wrote the Insoumis Hadrien Clouet, leader on the subject within his group. “They want everyone to work two more years but other than that no one loses… What world do you live in sir Olivier Dussop?“, added his colleague LFI Antoine Léaument.
«“It’s a left-wing reform”, that’s even why only the right is ready to vote for it“, for his part reacted the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure. When his communist counterpart, Fabien Roussel, thus quipped: “And besides, Tuesday 7, as everyone knows, it is the bourgeoisie of Neuilly-sur-Seine, the Amicale des shareholders du CAC 40 and the modest MEDEF who will demonstrate against this “left-wing reform”…»
The young socialist senator Rémi Cardon, who has been working on the text since Thursday in the hemicycle, also considered that it is “so much of a left-wing reform that it is strongly defended by Les Républicains». «Olivier Dussopt becomes the rebirth of the right. They dreamed of it and the macronie will do it, by order or following a deal between a few parliamentarians in CMP.»