PARIS, January 30 (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal delivered his general policy speech to the National Assembly on Tuesday, pleading in particular for a “French agricultural exception” in the midst of a crisis in the sector.
Here are the main reactions to the presentation of its roadmap:
JEAN-LUC MÉLENCHON, leader of La France insoumise (LFI), on X
“(Gabriel) Attal wants to forcibly generalize economic liberalism which has already destroyed industry, agriculture, health, education. And 25 billion less in the budget for the country.”
“He harshly punishes the ungrateful: elimination of the minimum wage, compulsory free work for the RSA, etc. The most reactionary speech in a century.”
BORIS VALLAUD, president of the socialist group in the National Assembly, on the podium
“You are the young face of the old world.”
MATHILDE PANOT, LFI deputy, to the press
“The urgency is to demacronize the country (…) Those who do not vote for the motion (of censure) will de facto be in the majority.”
FABIEN ROUSSEL, national secretary of the French Communist Party, on BFMTV
“I have instead heard announcements which are frightening and which risk third-worldizing France, in particular the abolition of the ASS (specific solidarity allowance), the end of the SRU law (solidarity and urban renewal) (.. .) It’s not Gabriel Attal we heard but Gabriel Thatcher.”
JORDAN BARDELA, president of the National Rally (RN), on
“In the midst of a farmers’ revolt, the government is unveiling a strategy of agricultural decline completely disconnected from the issues of food autonomy and safeguarding the French model. The Macronists want the death of our agriculture!”
(Written by Kate Entringer)
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