His word is rare, but still resonates in the media. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, several times minister between 1990 and 1999, published this Tuesday April 11 a four-page text on his networks. The former Minister of the Economy evokes the tumultuous episode of pensions and criticizes “the choice of the moment” of a reform “not so urgent”.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes the height and denounces the multiple faults committed by the executive for several months. “It is legitimate to wonder about the succession of errors whose sequence has led the country to an impasse. “One thinks first of all of the decline in purchasing power resulting from inflation, which hits the less well-off part of the population hard. If, as a recent survey tells us, almost half of the poorest French people have had to cut out one meal a day, then that’s where the urgency lies,” he adds.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn directly attacks Emmanuel Macron, whom he considers responsible for the situation. “It is this systemic reform that in 2017 a candidate for the presidency of the Republic said, rightly, he wanted to undertake. But then he surreptitiously abandoned that path. However, we must move away from a system based on the retirement age to build a system based on the contribution period. The cleaver age would then disappear. The contribution period would adjust slowly and steadily with changing funding needs,” he adds.
Beyond pensions, the 2007 presidential candidate also evokes various contemporary issues. “To this is added the haunting concern created by the apathy of governments in the face of yet so predictable climate change”, “a disproportionate use of physical and verbal violence” and a “dramatic situation” which “follows the Covid and has as its backdrop the question of war”.
There is still time to find solutions in the colors of the Republic.
Without denying the violence of recent weeks, Dominique Strauss-Kahn criticizes an executive who prefers to focus on it. “The vocabulary used was both revealing and exaggerated: defending social ideas does not make our fellow citizens ‘ultra-leftists’; Demonstrating to challenge and fight a government project is not “terrorism”.
The former Minister of the Economy concludes his text by referring to the decision of the Elders which will take place on Friday April 14. “The Constitutional Council will say whether or not it has abused the Constitution. Be that as it may, he will have manhandled the French people. Everyone goes there on their own terms.
