The leaders of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and La France Insoumise on Friday hailed the “bulwark role” of justice and the “disavowal” of the executive after the suspension in summary proceedings of the dissolution of the Uprisings of the Earth, the RN deploring for his part a “victory on a plateau” for the far left.
“Justice has played its role as a bulwark” against a government that wanted to “ban a collective that disturbs it politically”, declared the head of Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) Marine Tondelier to AFP.
The Council of State considered insufficient the constituent elements of the decree of dissolution of this environmental movement intervened after violent clashes between gendarmes and opponents to the construction of water reservoirs in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) in March.
“It is a government which is condemned by the same French justice for climate inaction, which does not manage to tackle the problem and which, to create a kind of diversion (…), prefers to attack the messenger “, Hammered Marine Tondelier.
“Extraordinary news! Bravo @lessoulevements! Shame on the government”, added another figure of Europe Ecology-the Greens, Sandrine Rousseau, on the X network (ex-Twitter). “A fair, important decision (..) a terrible disavowal for the government and Darmanin”, also asserts the ecologist deputy Julien Bayou.
For the coordinator of La France Insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, “the Council of State says stop the authoritarian drift of power”. Macronism is outlawed. A new disavowal for
For the former presidential candidate and historical figure of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with this decision, “the legitimacy of civic disobedience is gaining ground”.
Still on the left, the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure considered that “the Council of State reminds the government that public freedoms and the rule of law are not subject to its goodwill”.
On the far right, the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella on the other hand affirmed that from now on “this retrograde and decreasing movement, follower of sabotage, destruction and anti-cop violence, will feel its wings growing”.
“Through its incompetence, the government has just offered the far left a victory over the state on a platter,” he added on X.
The chairman of the Assembly’s Laws Committee, Sacha Houlié (Renaissance), stressed for his part that the “interim summary does not prejudge the substance”. The decision of the Council of State “in no way legitimizes past or future violent actions”, he noted on X.
08/11/2023 17:58:32 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
