They say no to Matignon and write to the Élysée. While La France Insoumise and the French Communist Party announced that they will not attend the consultation launched by Élisabeth Borne on Tuesday, the left-wing parliamentarians wrote a letter addressed to Emmanuel Macron.
Inside, deputies and senators from the different left-wing political parties are once again calling for the withdrawal of the pension reform, which still needs to be examined by the Constitutional Council before it can be promulgated by the President of the Republic. BFMTV was able to consult this letter, which will be delivered at the Elysee after a march by the National Assembly.
“For more than two months, a social movement, historical due to its union unity, its scope and its determination, has not stopped expressing its refusal to them”, we can read at the beginning of this letter.
“Your refusal to listen to people feeds their anger”
Referring to the “hundreds of thousands of French” who “mobilise” every day, the parliamentarians ask the head of state not to “claim that they have no legitimacy.”
“Their refusal to listen to the people feeds their anger and creates an unprecedented social, political and democratic crisis”, we can still read.
In that same letter, the deputies question the “legitimacy” of a reform “rejected by the majority of the people who, furthermore, cannot even expect a successful debate and a democratic vote.”
“We ask that you agree to meet with us”
By reproaching the head of the executive for having resorted to articles 47-1 and 49.3 of the Constitution to speed up the debates in Parliament and have the text approved without it being voted on in the National Assembly, the leftist parliamentarians ask for one more time and solemnly” Emmanuel Macron to “renounce” his “disastrous project by withdrawing it”.
The left-wing parliamentarians finally ask the President of the Republic to “give the floor” to the French about this reform “by way of referendum”.
“Mr. President, in this perspective of ending the crisis, we solemnly ask you to agree to meet with us,” the signatories of the letter finally write, refusing to consult with Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne.
Source: BFM TV
