Nupes did not show “its best face” in the Assembly, says the leader of the Socialist deputies

The left alliance did not “showed its best face” during the debate in the National Assembly on the pension reform project, believes the leader of the Socialist deputies Boris Vallaud, questioned by the JDD, Sunday, February 26. Socialists, ecologists and communists opposed the elected representatives of rebellious France on the strategy to be followed during this fortnight. The former wanted to speed up the debates, to arrive at the discussion on the article of the law relating to the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years. The latter maintained thousands of amendments and the discussion got bogged down.

“By our disunity, I fear that we have moved away from our double mission: to be at the service of those who have only their work to live and to be the fulcrum of the social movement”said Boris Vallaud to the weekly. “The Nupes is a union of four: we must respect each other, which does not prohibit disagreements, he recalled. But we must remain within a common regulatory framework, and hold our positions when we decide on them together. We have come out of this common framework and in some respects from the Assembly itself.”

An “after” for the Nupes

Boris Vallaud also deplores the excesses of certain LFI deputies. One of them dealt in particular with“assassin” the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, in the middle of the hemicycle. “The Assembly is not a tea room. There is room for passion and anger, but the limit is slippage, threats and insults”says the boss of the PS deputies.

Like the ecologists, who are calling for an act II of the Nupes, he calls for a reflection on the functioning of the coalition. “There must be an after. (…) This after must be more collective and more respectful of differences”he believes. Boris Vallaud pleads in particular for “an operating charter” of the parliamentary intergroup, in order to“to improve consultation and regulation between us”.