Anger in the opposition camp of course after the cartridge of 49.3 on the pension reform, but not only. The presidential majority itself regrets the use of this institutional option by the Prime Minister in a chaotic environment.
“Although 49.3 is a constitutional tool, we should have gone to the vote, respected the parliamentary expression and forced everyone to be responsible”, judged the deputy Modem Erwan Balanant on his Twitter account.
“Having advocated to the end in favor of a vote”
“The deputies are famous”, still assures an elect of the majority with BFMTV. The sentiment is obviously shared. “There is a lot of anger and frustration,” annoys one of his colleagues.
After procrastinating and considering going to the vote for a while, as ministers from Elisabeth Borne to Olivier Dussopt to Olivier Véran have repeatedly repeated, the government finally decided not to risk the Assembly.
“We cannot run the risk of seeing the compromise built by the two Assemblies annulled. We cannot bet on the future of our pensions,” the Prime Minister tried to justify in a flammable chamber, under boos and the Marseillaise sung by the rebels.
“I regret this use”
It must be said that the 287 votes necessary to approve the reform were not met and that Emmanuel Macron therefore did not resolve to obtain the rejection of his text -despite his threat to dissolve the National Assembly to put pressure on the LR deputies and hope to push them to vote.
The same story on the side of Modem Richard Ramos, who had publicly mentioned his doubts and his desire to abstain and that he sees in this 49.3 “a mess” and “an admission of weakness” by the president on Twitter.
Philippe Vigier, one of the members of the mixed joint commission, very favorable to the reform, also “regretted this use”. “I would have liked to see who voted, who did not vote,” explained the elected Modem on the parliamentary channel.
“Anger and Disappointment”
In the Renaissance camp, which is not used to publicly criticizing the president, they even dare to attack the executive head-on.
“I oscillate between anger and disappointment after this 49.3 (…) Defeat or victory in the vote, democracy would have spoken,” said deputy Éric Bothorel on his Twitter account.
To try to reassure her troops who are badly hurt by this sequence, Elisabeth Borne has tried to smooth things over. During an exceptional intergroup meeting organized after her visit to the Chamber, the Prime Minister assured that “her personal destiny would never lead her to make a decision that I consider contrary to the interest of my country.”
“Very worrying about the political state of the country”
Understand: it is not the risk of having to resign after a possible vote against what would have weighed in the balance of his decision. Obviously not very convincing. “She must go,” judges a macronista.
“Like all my colleagues, we wanted to go to the vote. (…) We haven’t wet our shirts for anything in months,” the Renaissance deputy Karl Olive still lamented into the BFMTV microphone, while returning responsibility to the LR deputies ” totally irrational.”
“The use that the government makes of 49.3 is ‘very worrying for the political state of the country,'” a no less severe minister told us.
The defeat of a “new method of government”
Obviously, Emmanuel Macron’s argument did not convince. President Emmanuel Macron assured during an exceptional council of ministers that his “political interest would have been to go to the vote,” our antenna learned. The failure is however total for the head of state who had promised “a new method of government” after the legislative elections.
The Élysée will continue to have to find a way out of the crisis. Thousands of people gathered in the Plaza de la Concordia this Thursday night and the CGT called for “mobilizations” and “strikes that must be amplified.”
Source: BFM TV
