“I will not participate in extinguishing the fire” of the protest against the pension reform, warned Marine Le Pen on Tuesday during an interview with AFP, considering that Emmanuel Macron is “the only one who has the keys to ‘a political crisis he created himself’.
The boss of the 88 deputies of the National Rally in the National Assembly estimated that “the crisis was foreseeable”.
“I saw Elisabeth Borne in September and I told her: If you use 49.3 to pass a pension reform, don’t count on me to play firefighters – as I was able to do at the time of the Yellow vests when it started to heat up very strongly – because you will have set the fire”, explained Marine Le Pen.
“I will not participate a second time in coming to put out a fire or try to participate in putting out a fire that you have started,” she continued.
The adoption of the pension reform on Tuesday evening, after the rejection of motions of censure tabled by the opposition in the wake of the use of 49.3 by the government, gave rise to spontaneous demonstrations often enamelled with tensions.
Nearly 300 people were arrested, including 234 in Paris.
The protest continues almost everywhere in France before a day of mobilization on Thursday at the call of the trade union centers.
According to the unsuccessful triple candidate in the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron “is the only one who has the keys: the keys, when there is a political crisis, is to return to the people”. However, according to Marine Le Pen, the Head of State “chosen to give a second slap to the French people by saying: Listen, there you go, everything that happened will lead to nothing. Nothing. No dissolution, no reshuffle , no withdrawal of the law, nothing, we will continue as if nothing had happened”.
“Conscientiously, the government is putting in place all the conditions for there to be a social explosion, as if they were looking for that, as if yet another episode of the season Order versus chaos had been written by Emmanuel Macron who leaves the disorder settle because, somewhere, he thinks that his elderly electorate can be reassured by the figure of order that he will be able to embody in the face of the chaos he has created, “continued Ms. Le Pen.
“All of this is terribly unhealthy and, incidentally, terribly dangerous: in reality we are throwing French people against French people”, she further argued.
03/21/2023 19:11:49 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
