Nupes denounces the “attacks” targeting Eric Coquerel, in a joint letter

The leaders of the four parliamentary groups of the Nupes left denounced, Monday, June 19, in the evening, the “pressures” and the “threats of ousting” targeting Eric Coquerel, the LFI Chairman of the Finance Committee, in a letter addressed to the President of the Assembly.

A series of elected Macronists and ministers have criticized in recent days “partisan attitude” of Eric Coquerel during the examination of a bill attempting to repeal the pension reform. Some even wondered about his renewal at the head of the Finance Committee at the start of the school year.

“Threats of ousting”

In their letter on Monday, Mathilde Panot (LFI), Cyrielle Chatelain (ecologist), Boris Vallaud (PS) and André Chassaigne (PCF) denounce “many pressures and attacks exerted” against Eric Coquerel, “and through him against the independence of his office vis-à-vis the government and its supporters”. “These attacks went so far as to take the form of threats of ousting, in particular from the president of the Renaissance group (Aurore Bergé), and sometimes undeniably inappropriate remarks”, they criticize.

In this letter addressed to the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance), the leaders of the Nupes point the finger at the remarks of the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne or the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, seeing there an attack on the “principle of separation of powers”.

Before the examination of the bill proposed by the Liot group attempting to repeal the pension reform, Eric Coquerel had deemed the text admissible, when the macronists considered it contrary to article 40 of the Constitution, which prevents parliamentarians from creating additional financial charges. The Liot text had finally been unraveled and then withdrawn during the session of June 8 in the hemicycle.