Train your own deputies to convince. On the eve of a mobilization that the unions hope will be massive, the Renaissance group in the National Assembly wants to equip its elected officials so that they can be persuasive. A training system has been set up, with 8 deputies in charge of explaining the main lines of the reform to their colleagues and answering their questions during the meetings organized in the National Assembly.
The idea is, in particular, to avoid a disastrous media sequence with a deputy who would not be able to respond in a market or on a television program. “We are also training because we are all a little afraid of having a target in the case of someone very particular and seeing it catch on on social networks,” acknowledges a deputy from the Cultural Affairs Committee.
“Nobody wants to work anymore, if we ourselves seem to waver, it won’t work,” continues this elected official.
“A request from non-specialist colleagues”
This Wednesday afternoon, it was Éric Woerth, Nicolas Sarkozy’s former labor minister, who defended the postponement of the retirement age in 2010 and Charlotte Lecocq-Parmentier who put on the teacher’s cap in the first session. Marc Ferracci, one of the number 2 in the group, is also one of the coaches.
“We felt a demand from colleagues who were not specialists in the subject and who want to be able to train themselves,” Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq explains to BFMTV.com.
“We have many questions about specific cases of French that we find in our constituencies and that the deputies want to be able to answer,” this deputy-elect from the North also advances.
It must be said that there is an urgent need for Macronie to convince on the ground: a large majority of the French are opposed to retirement at 64 years of age. To reverse the trend, the Renaissance group has also launched a loop in Telegram messaging to be able to respond very well to the questions of its deputies.
“To convince you have to explain a lot”
Finally, the elected specialists have planned to accompany their constituency colleagues during public meetings.
“I am available to anyone who wants to meet the voters. To convince, you have to explain a lot,” says Éric Woerth.
With a challenge: not to be “techno”. Emmanuel Macron has already urged the presidential majority to “be educators” and “show humility.” The President of the Republic also called on his lieutenants to insist “in the sense of the collective, the civic” of the pension reform.
The message passed 5 out of 5 with his troops. “We have a reform that is beautiful and complex,” says Eric Woerth. “Everyone tries to see directly how it will impact them,” continues the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy. “We must, therefore, explain by remembering that we are in a system based on solidarity between generations and that we must look beyond our own case.”
To make the task of Renaissance elected officials easier, the party has already printed leaflets distributed in recent days extolling “justice,” “balance” and “advancement” of reform.
Source: BFM TV
