“A grotesque diversion.” This is how Mathilde Panot responds on BFMTV-RMC to the various statements by the presidential camp, which accuses her formation, La France insoumise, of having a part in the violence that marked the latest mobilization against the pension reform on Thursday, and that of Saint-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) this weekend.
For the leader of the rebel deputies, the executive and the majority, “trying to[nt] change the discussion in the country”. The objective is “so that we no longer talk about pensions, about a free life that the French do not want to be stolen from us” and “to point out the political force that we are”.
“Dislegitimizing the reasonable order”
For several days now, the elected members of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party have been a regular target of the Macronists. The President of the Republic pointed his finger at them this Monday during a meeting at the Élysée with the leaders of the presidential majority and the tenors of the government, declaring:
“There is a real political project led by LFI that tries to delegitimize the reasonable order, our institutions, the institutional tools.”
“Extremely dangerous”
The president can count on his troops to get the message across. This Tuesday, Prisca Thévenot, president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, accused the rebels in France Info of “attis[er] fire constantly.”
“La France insoumise does not present itself as the first opposition group to Emmanuel Macron, but as the first opposition group to our institutions”, added the deputy from Hauts-de-Seine.
Mathilde Panot responded to the head of state by blaming him for the current tensions. For her, he “is playing an extremely dangerous game with democracy.”
Alluding to the latter’s recent television interview, the deputy from Val-de-Marne lashed out at a “President of the Republic [qui] compares and amalgamates the protesters with the rebels of the Capitol”. According to Mathilde Panot, “it delegitimizes democracy and its opposition”.
Source: BFM TV
