For the first secretary of the Socialist Party, “the president no longer understands his country” and “does not grasp the almost unanimous movement” against pension reform.
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“I found it lunar and hallucinating”, reacts Wednesday March 22 on franceinfo Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, after the interview granted by Emmanuel Macron to the “13 hours” of TF1 and France 2 on the deadlock situation that the country is experiencing because of the 49.3 on the reform retirements. For the PS-Nupes deputy from Seine-et-Marne, “the president no longer understands his country” And “does not grasp the almost unanimous movement – nine out of ten working people are opposed to this reform – and continues to explain to us that he has followed a democratic path, that everything is going well and that he will continue as before. i.e. alone.”, explains Olivier Faure.
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“What was mind-boggling in this interview”according to him “It’s when he explains to us that there was no alternative. Of course there is. He doesn’t have the exclusive rights to a good idea and common sense.” For the first secretary of the PS, “we could otherwise finance a deficit which is not yet observed but anticipated”.
“The chaos is organized by the president himself”
“Sometimes we pinch ourselves”he adds. “He makes fun of French men and women. Instead of calming down, he is pouring a jerrycan of gasoline on a fire that is already well under way.” The socialist even goes so far as to say that “the chaos is organized by the president himself”. According to him, Emmanuel Macron “tells the French that deep down, he will not listen to them”.
Regarding the statements of the president who compares the spontaneous demonstrations against the pension reform to the violence on the Capitol in Washington by the supporters of Donald Trump and to those committed by the supporters of Jaïr Bolsonaro in Brasilia, Olivier Faure replies that he found this comparison “infamous for the people who demonstrate”. And to wonder: “How can we equate people who demonstrate against a bill with a large minority, to people who came to contest an election? What relationship?”
For the first secretary of the PS, “A statesman is not necessarily someone who martyrs his own people, he is not someone who goes beyond the popular will, he is someone who listens to what the people say to him. folks”.
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