The green deputies denounced on Friday a “strategic failure of LFI” in the pension reform, as Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party delayed the examination in the Assembly of the key article on the postponement of the legal retirement age and going to the 64 years. .
“La Nupes, it works when we work in concert,” insisted the president of the environmental group Cyrielle Chatelain during an interview with AFP. “Each of Nupes’ matches is essential but, for it to work, you also have to respect the whole.”
According to her colleague Sandrine Rousseau “an effort must be made to move from LFI to Nupes”, “we will have to decide on an Act II of Nupes”.
“We had a moment in the debate in which the Government was in trouble, three days ago about 1,200 euros” (the minimum pension at 85% of the minimum wage, editor’s note) with “a pretty good Nupes sequence.”
“We should have sped up”
“We had the advantage, we should have done everything to go to article 7. We should have accelerated at that moment,” said Sandrine Rousseau, who is the leader of the environmental group on this text.
“We are going to leave the debate to the Senate and the mixed commission, but above all we are going to leave the baby on the street. On March 7 there really has to be a general strike of magnitude,” pleaded the deputy from Paris. .
According to Cyrielle Chatelain, “the debate showed that the government had a strong fever.”
Mélenchon had called not to “rush”
But “normally the heart of the debate should have been the withdrawal of the pension reform, we see that the debate finally shifted to the withdrawal of the LFI amendments,” lamented the elected official from Isère.
“We would have liked to have this debate” on the postponement of the age of majority from 62 to 64 years, “it would have put the Government in a very big bind, we feel the concern of the parliamentarians and the Government,” stressed the president of the environmental group .
LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon had on Thursday called on lawmakers not to “rush” towards the key article of the reform, chiding communist allies.
“Incomprehensible withdrawal of the PCF amendments. Why rush to article 7? Does the rest of the law not count? Can’t I wait for them to beat me up?” Mélenchon criticized on the social network Twitter, showing the differences strategies within Nupes. .
Source: BFM TV
