The leader of the PS deputies Boris Vallaud described Sunday Emmanuel Macron as a “mad (…) entrenched in the Elysée”, accusing him of having caused a crisis and a “democratic coup” by “brutalising “Parliament and not listening to the street on pension reform.
“Obstinacy is a bad adviser and we have a president who is a fanatic,” said the PS deputy from Landes, guest of the Grand Jury RTL / LCI / Le Figaro.
“When you are entrenched at the Élysée and only listen to yourself, I don’t really have any other adjective than that,” he replied to journalists who reacted to the use of the term “frenzied”.
Asked about the words of the boss of the CFDT Laurent Berger who had spoken Wednesday of “democratic crisis” on the eve of the eleventh day of mobilization against the pension reform, Mr. Vallaud went further: “it is also political, institutional and social. It is the accumulation of all this that worries us and drives us to despair”.
“Yes, it’s a political coup and it’s a democratic crisis,” he argued.
“When you discredit social dialogue, when you step on the social partners (…), when you do not respect the parliamentary institution, when you brutalize it (…), when in the street you have people who demonstrate by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, yes it is a democratic coup because you are devitalizing democracy”, he insisted.
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04/09/2023 13:50:20 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
