The LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis and president of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly was the guest of “8:30 a.m. franceinfo”, Saturday June 10, 2023.
Eric Coquerel, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis and chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, was the guest of “8:30 franceinfo”Saturday June 10, 2023. Pension reform, political reactions after the knife attack in Annecy… He answered questions from Lorrain Sénéchal and Agathe Lambret.
Pensions: “When we govern this country, we will repeal this reform and try to return to retirement at 60”
After the withdrawal on Thursday of the bill aimed at repealing the pension reform, which the Liot group considered emptied of its substance in committee, Eric Coquerel judges that he “has become systematic” not being able to vote at the Meeting. The LFI group will file a new motion of censure against the government “to mark the occasion”while the member believes that we have “has reached a limit, with a drift that attacks parliamentary democracy in a very serious way”.
For Eric Coquerel, the rest of the battle will be played out in 2027: “Since Nupes, we have a left which is again united on a program of rupture (…) The sermon that we gave, to return to retirement at 60, to give ourselves this objective shows that the page opened by the Nupes in the legislative elections will continue and I hope until 2027 because it is the only guarantee that we can win the elections”.
Knife attack in Annecy: the reactions on the right and the far right are “indecent”
The reactions on the right and the extreme right have been “indecent” after the knife attack in Annecy, believes the rebellious deputy. “Essentializing a gesture that could mean that migrants are people who more easily act out is a new way of castigating foreigners”, he adds. Eric Coquerel calls for a major march against the far right to be relaunched, with “unions and associations, putting aside our differences”.
“There is a linksays Eric Coquerel, between politicians who believe it is good to point the finger at immigration and ultra-right groups who take action in an increasingly relaxed way, with their faces uncovered, with racist, fascist slogans. The LFI deputy denounces a “extreme ideological right-winging of the political field” In France “which largely permeates the political staff and even the government”.
“We would do better to take an interest in other subjects, such as the problem of mental health in France”. The deputy estimates that 35,000 to 40,000 homeless people in Île-de-France “have mental health problems, lack of reception. (…) Psychiatry must not be the poor relation of health itself”.
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