“The rise in violence is a real threat to democracy”, worries Elisabeth Borne

“I think we all need to think about how to get out of this rise in violence, which is a real threat to democracy,” worries Elisabeth Borne, during an interview with France Culture, Friday, May 26. Traveling to the National Forest Park in Côte-d’Or for the Nature Festival, the Prime Minister answered questions from our colleagues, in particular on the term “decivilization”, employed by Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers to talk about violence within society.

Elisabeth Borne believes that “the president points to the surge of violence that we are witnessing” in particular with reference to the mayor of Saint-Brevin who submitted his resignation at the beginning of May after his house was burned down, or even to the fatal attack on a nurse in Reims last Sunday.

“It calls us all to a start, continues the Prime Minister, because the way democracy works is debate, it’s accepting contradiction, it’s having the right to demonstrate when you don’t agree with a project, but that doesn’t work not by violence.”

The bill to delete article 7: a “paradox”, according to Elisabeth Borne

Elisabeth Borne also returned to the Liot group’s bill to repeal the pension reform which will be debated on June 8 in the National Assembly. “We can emphasize that there is a paradox in the position of the parliamentary groups which have done everything to prevent us from examining Article 7, that is to say, the heart of the reform. today, suddenly – and one can be a little surprised – they absolutely want, in a few hours, to do what they did not allow to do in 80 hours”.

The Prime Minister repeats that she considers this text “inadmissible” and invoke again “Article 40 of our Constitution” Who “does not allow, through a bill or an amendment, to create charges”. However, according to her, “we are talking about billions of more expenses or less revenue”. Elisabeth Borne talks about “constitutional problem” and leave the hand to the Parliament to which it belongs, she said, “to find the right way to respond to this somewhat unprecedented situation”.