The tension is rising a notch between the government and the opposition, on the pension reform. In the Hemicycle as well as outside. And this Friday morning, it was the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, who raised his voice at the microphone of the National Assembly, where discussions on the bill resumed after the day devoted to the texts of the PS.
“You amendments are useless”, began the minister carrying the reform against the deputies of rebellious France. “It’s you who are useless,” retorted one of them – Matthias Tavel, presumably. Something to get Olivier Dussopt out of his hinges. ” 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? he charged.
“It’s not a reality show”
One way to respond to the photo posted on Twitter Thursday by MP Thomas Portes. In the image, the elected LFI of Seine-Saint-Denis poses with his foot on a football representing the head of the Minister of Labor. In comment: “Minister Olivier Dussopt, withdraw your pension reform”.
The reactions were quick, on the side of the majority. “Our institutions are not reality TV,” replied government spokesperson Olivier Véran on BFMTV this Friday morning.
As of Thursday, the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, had lambasted on Twitter that “the tricolor scarf (was) not a theater costume. Your staging dishonours her”. “Serious facts have taken place: the head of Minister Olivier Dussopt was symbolically crushed by a deputy wearing the tricolor scarf, who published it on social networks, this is not how we should treat the democracy”, had launched the leader of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, on the sidelines of an agitated debate on socialist texts in the hemicycle.
Asked about BFMTV this Thursday evening, LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon had, for his part, swept aside the critics: “You are relaying the propaganda of Aurore Bergé and the Renaissance group, to make people believe that it is a act of violence,” he told reporters. “There are games of chamboule-tout every week in our country (…) You come to get us drunk with a ball story, you are ridiculous (…) It’s grotesque”.