the left seeks to rebound after the lightning promulgation of the law

2023-04-17 09:29:36

Olivier Faure, with other deputies, after the decision of the Constitutional Council, at the Assembly, April 14, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP

” Robbery “, ” contempt “, “forfeiture”. All weekend, the left has multiplied the qualifiers to express its indignation after the lightning promulgation of the law extending the retirement age to 64 years. “Injustice never sleeps”denounced the deputy (Socialist Party) of the Landes Boris Vallaud, who regrets the “symbolic brutality” of this gesture. “Emmanuel Macron cannot ignore the provocative, contemptuous nature of this act”, corroborates his colleague (La France insoumise, LFI) from Seine-Saint-Denis Alexis Corbière.

Sounded by the outcome of the battle for pensions, which lasted several months, the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) is trying to prepare the response. While the mobilization of the last demonstrations has run out of steam, the left wants to believe in the “popular tidal wave” predicted by the inter-union, which called for a 13^e day of action on the 1^is May.

“The showdown continues, assures the national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, Marine Tondelier. We are not going to turn the page. » For his part, the LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône Manuel Bompard invited, in an interview with the Sunday newspaper, “union, association and political forces” to meet “in the next few days” pour “preparing for the sequel”.

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It would still be necessary for LFI to reconcile with the CGT. The links between the movement and the central have been broken since December 2022, due to the bad relations between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Philippe Martinez. Impossible, since, for the Nupes to coordinate with the inter-union. LFI hopes that the arrival at the head of the CGT of Sophie Binet, who wanted to normalize relations with political parties, will change the situation. A meeting could be arranged “after the 1^is May “according to the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Aurélie Trouvou.

“The right has had its pockets picked”

At the same time, his colleague from Seine-Saint-Denis, and chairman of the National Assembly’s finance committee, Eric Coquerel, is trying to convince the Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) group to bring a new motion. of cross-partisan censorship against the government, the week of 1^is may. The one that had been filed in the wake of the use of 49.3 had failed, by nine votes. For Mr. Coquerel, several elected officials from the Les Républicains (LR) party, whose votes failed on the right during this motion of censure, are probably “irritated” by the course of events. “The right has still had its pockets picked”believes Alexis Corbière.

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