The senator from Paris, spokesperson for the French Communist Party, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Saturday January 6, 2024.
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Ian Brossat, senator from Paris and spokesperson for the French Communist Party (PCF), was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Saturday January 6, 2024. Reshuffle, humanitarian situation in Gaza, immigration law… He responded to Jean- Rémi Baudot and Aurélie Herbemont.
Possible reshuffle: “I expect absolutely nothing from all this”
“I expect absolutely nothing from all this“, declared Ian Brossat when asked if a possible government reshuffle could change the orientations of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term. “Since Emmanuel Macron has been President of the Republic, ministers have primarily a decorative function. Everything is decided at the Élysée and a little also at Bercy“, criticizes the senator from Paris who therefore does not expect any significant change in the government, “like the vast majority of French people“, he judges. For him, the vast majority of ministers appointed since 2017 “are of absolutely no use“.
To justify himself, the PCF spokesperson explains that “it is not because we replace a right-wing minister with another right-wing personality, to implement a right-wing policy, consistent with what has been implemented for years now, that it will change anything. to the situation of the French“.
At Paris City Hall, the former deputy mayor in charge of Housing believes he has “rubbed shoulders with three or four housing ministers” since Emmanuel Macron became President of the Republic. Ian Brossat says: “Every time, I met them. They told me that they completely agreed with what I said, that they were going to implement a certain number of reforms, and then nothing happened. For what ? Because it wasn’t them who decided“.
And no matter the political label administered to the people who enter Emmanuel Macron’s government, they are all “of right“according to Ian Brossat, since”when you do politics, you are first judged based on what you do“. Example with Elisabeth Borne, “We were told here is a personality classified as left-wing“, recalls the Parisian senator, who nevertheless believes that the current head of government “will have gone down in history as the Prime Minister who implemented national preference with the immigration law; like the Prime Minister who crushed the will of the French by imposing a pension reform which was refused by 80% of workers in our country“.
Israel-Hamas war: “We need an airlift” in Gaza and “a political solution”
During the night from Thursday to Friday, France and Jordan dropped seven tons of humanitarian cargo over the Gaza Strip to support the Palestinian population. “It is both necessary and welcome“, reacts Ian Brossat. “Two things are needed: both an airlift and above all political action, a ceasefire. It is now time for France to raise its voice.”
“We cannot continue to have an Israeli government which bombs civilian populations and which chooses to massacre a people, people who have nothing to do with Hamas“, continues the PCF spokesperson. “Everyone knows the political solution: we have a sovereign Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.”
Immigration law: “Yes, the City of Paris will maintain the aid [pour les étrangers] and it honors him”
“VSthis text is an ignominy“, launches Ian Brossat on the subject of immigration law, which continues to fracture the political landscape. “At the beginning we were told that it would be a text which would make it possible to fight against illegal immigration. And we find ourselves with a text which will deprive legally resident foreigners of social benefits for five years. In the name of what ?”
The Paris senator justifies the refusal of the Paris town hall, and 32 left-wing departments, to apply the tightening of the conditions for payment to foreigners of the personalized autonomy allowance (APA), aid which is aimed at elderly, dependent people. “Oyes, the City of Paris will maintain this aid and that honors it.”
“I am still very struck by the fact that many right-wing elected officials who are outraged by the fact that we are making this decision, while they are trampling on the SRU law which imposes 20% of social housing, without it bothering them. poses the slightest problem“, adds Ian Brossat, elected to the Paris Council. “So these people can keep their lessons.”
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