Heated debates that are not to everyone’s taste. The left alliance, the Nupes, did not “show its best face” during the presentation to the National Assembly of the pension reform project and it will take an “after” based on the collective spirit and respect, said Sunday in Le Journal du dimanche the leader of the Socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud.
Socialists, ecologists and communists on the one hand, elected members of La France insoumise (LFI) on the other, they opposed each other during this debate 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.
“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”, declared Boris Vallaud to the weekly.
“The Nupes is a union of four: we must respect each other, which does not prohibit 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,” adds Boris Vallaud.
The socialist deputy also deplores the excesses of certain LFI deputies, one of them even calling the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, an “assassin” in the middle of the hemicycle. “The Assembly is not a teahouse. There is room for passion and anger, but the limit is slip-ups, threats and insults,” he says.
Like the environmentalists who are calling for an act II of the Nupes, he calls for a reflection on the future functioning of the coalition. “You can name it whatever you want, but, yes, for Nupes, there has to be an after.” It is possible and essential. This after must be more collective and more respectful of differences,” he says. He pleads in particular for “an operating charter” of the parliamentary intergroup “to improve consultation and regulation between us”.
