The coordinator of the party La France insoumise (LFI) first denounced the attitude of Emmanuel Macron and that of Aurore Bergé, president of the “Renaissance” group in the National Assembly.
“I observe that macronists, in general, have a serious problem with checks and balances”, said Manuel Bompard, Tuesday, June 13 on franceinfo. According to the coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI), “as soon as a counter-power displeases them, as soon as it says something that does not go their way, they put it aside”.
Manuel Bompard quotes in particular the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and the President of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé. “They tapped the fingers of the chairman of the Pensions Orientation Council because he had given the figures, and these figures did not suit them”he recalls. “Pension expenditure is not slipping, it is relatively under control, in most cases, it rather decreases over time”, had indeed indicated Pierre-Louis Bras, in January. A simple reminder of the findings of his institution, that opponents of the reform have not failed to turn against the executive.
“When you have the Palme d’Or at Cannes, who takes advantage of his nomination to say something about the situation of culture in France, they pat him on the knuckles”, continues the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, alluding to the speech of Justine Triet. The director notably criticized a “commodification of culture that the neoliberal government defends” and who is “to break the French cultural exception”. “Unfair”had commented the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak.
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“When the chairman of the finance committee enforces the rule, they pat him on the wrist, and they want to replace him”which is “unacceptable”, denounces Manuel Bompard again. In covert words, the leader of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, had indeed threatened Éric Coquerel, not to be renewed at the start of the school year, after he gave the green light to the examination of a bill. to repeal retirement at age 64.
“It is a debate that we will have”she launched Sunday on France Inter. “When you are chairman of a commission, you are not in a partisan capacity, you are not president LFI, Les Républicains, communist… We are there to enforce this institution”, argued Aurore Bergé. To justify his decision, Éric Coquerel claimed a “soft app” of the Constitution, which prohibits any parliamentary proposal creating a burden on public finances. Flexibility in the name of the defense of “parliamentary initiative” and “right of opposition”.*
Pension reform “repealed sooner or later”
According to the regulations of the National Assembly, “can only be elected to the presidency of the Finance Committee a deputy belonging to a group that has declared itself to be in opposition”. Manuel Bompard recalls the use: “to respect that, the deputies of the majority do not participate in his election”. If the deputies of the presidential majority were to decide, during the renewal, “it would be a new red line to cross”he warns.
The strategy of the left alliance Nupes on pensions, in the coming months, promises other frictions with the presidential camp. “We will reintroduce repeal laws to finally get this repeal” reform, he promises. This is not the only option: “at the end of the year, we will have a discussion on the social security finance bill” And “we will propose amendments (…) to come back to this pension reform”. “Sooner or later”She “will be repealed”undertakes Manuel Bompard.