Sébastien Chenu, deputy Rassemblement national du Nord and vice-president of the National Assembly, was the guest of “8:30 a.m. franceinfo”, Saturday October 15, 2022. He answered questions from Neila Latrous and Lorrain Sénéchal.
Strike in refineries: Sébastien Chenu deplores a lack of anticipation
“Requisitions are when you’ve tried everything, and nothing has worked: it’s the last stage of the rocket”, launched on franceinfo the RN deputy from the North. According to him, they are necessary to deal with the shortage of fuel which has been disturbing the country for several days, but the government has been slow to react. “The government has zapped the whole series of stages and anticipations that it would have taken to manage this conflict”he added, stressing that the movement began three weeks ago now and concerns sectors “which all the same, morning, noon and evening, obsess the French”.
Salaries: “The CGT today serves the interests it claims to defend”
According to Sébastien Chenu, employees “are right to mobilize” to demand a pay rise. “The salary issue in our country is central, we will not escape it”, he hammered. However, the deputy denounces the continuation of the movement by the CGT, while an agreement was signed between the management of TotalEnergies and the two majority unions. “The CGT today is serving the interests it claims to defend. It is serving the interests of the employees by continuing this strike in a somewhat hardline manner, and by annoying the vast majority of French people who need their car”he said.
Demonstration days: “Let’s not be fooled by political appropriations”
Sébastien Chenu has confirmed that he will not participate in the march this Sunday “against the high cost of living and climate inaction” and that he does not call for a strike on Tuesday, October 18. According to him, this strike “is political”. “Let’s not be fooled by political recoveries, we can also see behind that the far left of Jean-Luc Mélenchon who, confused in his Quatennens affairs, barbecue, Bayou, Obono, is looking for a way out”, he says. The RN deputy who also calls for the greatest caution regarding safety in the processions to come. “I dare to be able to trust the organizers of these demonstrations, the unions to make it go well, but of course I hope that the Minister of the Interior has nevertheless imagined that people, thugs, are infiltrating, since ‘they did not dissolve the black-blocs’he warns.
Pensions: “We will do everything to oppose this reform”
The government is currently conducting consultations on the subject of pension reform. Marine Le Pen was received by the Prime Minister on Friday but according to Sébastien Chenu, the RN will not vote for this text. “We will do everything to oppose this reform”, he assured. According to the elected RN, the timing is not good. “Today when we have a problem of inflation, purchasing power and a very degraded social climate in the country, there is no urgency to add a debate on pension reform”he explained, denouncing in passing the debates currently taking place in the National Assembly on the 2023 budget. “If everything we vote goes in the trash to trigger 49.3, if that’s the government’s new methods, I don’t see the point in stretching the country”.
Nupes: Sébastien Chenu castigates “very absent” deputies
If the government triggers 49.3 to adopt the 2023 budget, the RN threatens to table a motion of censure. An initiative that the party will take without waiting for the Nupes and the left-wing parties that compose it. “The left, they do not vote for the tax on superprofits. They do not sit in the hemicycle, they are very absent: I have not seen Fabien Roussel once since the return to parliament”denounces Sébastien Chenu. “There is the left that speaks and the left that acts, the left that acts, we are waiting to see”criticizes the deputy from the North.
Refusal to comply: “There is a problem of state authority”
Friday evening, a man was killed in Paris by police fire after refusing to comply. Eleven people have been killed by law enforcement since the beginning of the year during a hit-and-run. According to Sébastien Chenu, it is above all a “problem of state authority”. “There is a state of violence that is rising in society and which is worrying”judges the deputy of the RN.
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