The sling continues to rise within the Nupes. And this Sunday, it is the turn of the leader of the Socialist deputies to criticize the strategy of the left alliance to oppose the pension reform project. According to Boris Vallaud, she did not “show her best face” during the debates in the National Assembly. There will therefore be a need for an “after” based on the collective spirit and respect, he believes in the JDD.
Socialists, ecologists and communists on the one hand, elected representatives of insubordinate France (LFI) on the other opposed on the strategy to follow. The former wanted to speed up the debates to arrive at the discussion on the article of the law relating to the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years. The latter maintained thousands of amendments and the debates got bogged down.
Respect “does not forbid disagreements”
“By our disunity, I fear that we have moved away from our double mission: to be at the service of those who have only their work to live and to be the fulcrum of the social movement”, judge Boris Vallaud. “The Nupes is a union of four: we must respect each other, which does not prevent disagreements. But we must remain within a common regulatory framework, and hold our positions when we decide on them together. We have come out of this common framework and in some respects from the Assembly itself”.
The deputy of Landes also deplores the excesses of certain LFI deputies, one of them even treating the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt as an “assassin” in the middle of the hemicycle. “The Assembly is not a tea room. There is room for passion and anger, but the limit is slippage, threats and insults,” he says.
Like the ecologists who are calling for an act II of the Nupes, he calls for a reflection on the future functioning of the coalition. “We can give it the name we want but yes, for Nupes, there must be an after. It is possible and essential. This after must be more collective and more respectful of differences”. He pleads in particular for “an operating charter” of the parliamentary intergroup “to improve consultation and regulation between us”.