Boris Vallaud describes Emmanuel Macron as “a madman” at the origin of “a democratic coup”

The mobilization against the pension reform continues on the left. The leader of the PS deputies, Boris Vallaud, again attacked Emmanuel Macron, Sunday April 9 during the program “Le Grand JuryRTL-LCI-Le Figaro“. The socialist described the head of state as a “frenzied (…) entrenched at the Elysée”. The Landes deputy also accused him of having caused a crisis and a “democratic coup” in “brutalizing” Parliament and by not listening to the street on the pension reform.

“Obstinacy is a bad adviser and we have a president who is a fanatic”he said. “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 “forced”.

Asked about the words of the boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, who mentioned on Wednesday a “democratic crisis”Boris Vallaud went further. “It is also political, institutional and socialhe pointed out. It’s 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 hundreds of thousands, by millions, yes it is a democratic coup because you are devitalizing democracy”he insisted.