The president of the National Rally was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Friday March 17, 2023.
Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, was the guest of the 8:30 a.m. franceinfoFriday March 17, 2023. Retirements, motions of censure, end of the thermal, nuclear car… He answered questions from Jules de Kiss and Neila Latrous.
Pensions: “Emmanuel Macron takes an unhealthy pleasure in organizing chaos in the country”
“We have the feeling that Emmanuel Macron takes an unhealthy pleasure in organizing chaos in the country”, said Jordan Bardella, while the pension reform was not put to the vote of the deputies on Thursday. The government preferred to use 49.3. “I find it difficult to understand his obsession”, he added. Thursday evening, several thousand demonstrators gathered in several cities in France and tensions arose in some of them. “Elisabeth Borne sends a disrespectful finger of honor to the French people and to the national representation. She presents a text that a very large majority of the country rejects, that the deputies elected by the French people reject.”
The RN will group its votes “on motions of censure which do not emanate” from it
Motions of censure will be tabled on Friday and they will be examined on Monday. “The interest of all parliamentarians who say they are in opposition is to ensure that this motion of censure is adopted”insisted Jordan Bardella. “If we have to group our votes on motions of censure which do not emanate from the National Rally, we will group our votes on motions of censure which do not emanate from the National Rally.” Jordan Bardella pointed to the Nupes who “is sectarian and does not want to vote for the motions of censure that come from the National Rally. This is not our case. We are not sectarian”he assured.
A motion of censure is being tabled by the centrist independent group Liot (Liberties, independents, overseas territories and territories). “She is the one who is likely to have the votes of the whole opposition, so of course we will vote.” Jordan Bardella “calls on the Republican deputies to have the courage to vote for these motions”. He also calls “all the deputies, all the political movements in France which call themselves opposition, to vote for this motion of censure, because I think that Elisabeth Borne must leave“.
Response to Laurent Berger: “There is a little embarrassment on the side of the union leaders”
“There is a little embarrassment on the side of the union leaders, because during the second round, they called to vote for Emmanuel Macron”, reacted Jordan Bardella to the words of Laurent Berger. On franceinfo, Thursday, the general secretary of the CFDT declared that “from the beginning” pension reform, “The National Rally and Madame Le Pen are in ambush”. Jordan Bardella felt that “it’s a bit easy to have supported the social executioner of the French people, the one whose only measure in his project against Marine Le Pen was to put in place the pension reform” and to point the finger at the National Rally afterwards. “The door will never be closed if representatives of trade unions decide to dialogue with us. I am not a sectarian, we have been suffering from sectarianism for 30 years.”
Ban on thermal vehicles in 2035: “Very heavy consequences on employment”
“The ban on thermal vehicles in 2035 will have very serious consequences on employment in France and will have a considerable social cost”, said Jordan Bardella. Germany believes that 2035 is too early and opposes this ban. “We are inflicting constraints on ourselves that we are the only powers in the world to impose on ourselves”, he added. If we have to pass “The all-electric car fleet in 2035 requires doubling French electricity production”said Jordan Bardella. “The same people who want to ban heat engines are the same people who for 10 years have organized the sabotage of the nuclear industry and have abandoned all investment in nuclear power. The first step to take is to reconnect with energy sovereignty and especially nuclear. For Jordan Bardella, “François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron have committed faults which cost France dearly”.
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