The founder of rebellious France, who encouraged his troops to practice obstruction and agitation in the National Assembly, attracted criticism of the unions. An attitude that also weakens the NUPS.
by Sandrine Cassini
From government to unions, going through the left, a surge of criticism fell all weekend on rebellious France (LFI) in the wake of the examination of the bill on pensions at the National Assembly. “LFI failed everything in this debate,” said Olivier Dussopt on Sunday, February 19 on Radio J, believing that “rebellious” deputies had “given the worst image of themselves”. The Minister of Labor, whose head had been displayed on a ball by the elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis, Thomas Portes, before being treated “assassin” by his colleague of Hauts-de-Seine, Aurélien Saintoul , has been one of the targets of choice for elected officials in the past two weeks. Jurored enemy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and fervent opponent of the new Ecological and Social People’s People’s Union (Nuts), François Hollande saw it “a formidable mess”. “What is serious is that the allies of the Nuts discovered that they were locked up and led in a dead end,” said the former head of state, on RTL.
More than LFI, it is Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose irruption in the pension debate had the effect of weakening the alliance on the left, which is found at the heart of criticism. The secretary general of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Philippe Martinez, attacked the leader of LFI directly, regretting, Sunday, on BFM, that he “does not promote the clarity of the debates”.
Within the left coalition, no one dares to instruct the trial of the former socialist senator. Especially not when the left tries to unite against the pension reform. “It is on this that we must remain concentrated!” And not on “the diversions that Jean-Luc Mélenchon nourishes”, sweeps the national secretary of Europe Ecology-les Verts, Marine Tondelier. “The explanations will come later, corroborates the socialist leader Olivier Faure. For the moment, nobody wants to open a soap for the internal life of the Nuts which would harm the social movement.”
“Act II of the clouds “
Right arm of Mr. Mélenchon, Manuel Bompard defends the right for rebellious France to act as it sees fit, recalling that the movement has not sought anything “to impose on others”. The deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône regrets “nothing of this strategy, the least naive, the most vigilant”, which, according to him, prevented the government “from going out with a positive vote”. For the LFI space coordinator, disagreements with the rest of the cloud are not “the end of the world”.
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