Green MP Sandrine Rousseau said on Wednesday that it was necessary to “devirilize politics”, still too much held by figures of “authoritarian leaders who impose and emerge conquerors from social conflicts”, in allusion to Emmanuel Macron and his pension reform .
Asked on franceinfo to find out if a woman would have led the social and political conflict that accompanied the postponement of the retirement age to 64 differently, the MP for Paris replied: “Margaret Thatcher would not have been very different but I think that there, we need to devirilize politics”.
“It’s not ultimately a question of the sex of the person who holds the position, it’s codes of power that are still very marked by warlords and a world that is collapsing,” he said. she argued.
It would be necessary “to get out of the figure of authoritarian leaders who impose and who emerge conquerors from social conflicts”, she continued, pleading to “go towards cooperation, towards discussion, towards exchange, towards humility too because political representatives must be humble towards the people they represent”. “And I did not feel any humility in Emmanuel Macron”, added Sandrine Rousseau.
She also criticized “stubbornness” of the head of state despite the massive challenge to the reform, finally promulgated last Friday. “He’s on a personal matter,” she described.
“In addition, he puts himself in front of the trade union movement, there were leaks which said that he had mastered, that he had beaten the trade union movement”, regretted the deputy, denouncing “codes which are completely outdated ” and which “are based on a policy which seems to me to be very dated in reality, from the 80s, a somewhat frenzied liberalism”.
04/19/2023 10:33:59 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
