The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS
The first secretary of the PS, guest on Public Senate, considered “pathetic” those who defend the text of the government.
The formula makes him smile. But just a little. Besides, he doesn’t know whether to “laugh or cry“. Invited on Public Senate this morning of March 6, Olivier Faure reacted to the declaration of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, who, in the columns of the Parisian defended a pension reform “from the left“.
“This is the problem of people who, one day, betray their own convictions, they need to reassure themselves by telling themselves that they have remained faithful to what they were.“, lambasted the first secretary of the Socialist Party. “I think he is reassured like that but the evidence is that this reform is not a reform of the left.»
Listing the “losersof the pension reform (“women, precarious people, people who started working the earliest“), Olivier Faure thus decided: “I don’t see any connection with the left.“To Aurore Bergé, patroness of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, who felt that the left, being against the pension reform and “submittedto Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to “denied“Olivier Faure answers:”I don’t think she is particularly qualified to say what is left and what is not.And to add: “Seeing them try to explain the inexplicable, lying week after week, being exposed by parliamentary debate… I see them struggling and I think it’s pathetic.
TO HAVE ALSO – Pensions: Dussopt hopes that the debate in the Senate “will make it possible to debate” the project