The first national secretary of the PS returned, Monday, May 23 on France Inter, to the accusations of rape against Damien Abad, the appointment of Pap Ndiaye but also the program of the NUPES during the legislative elections, in particular on the subject of pensions.
Olivier Faure began the interview by returning to the accusations of rape against LR defector Damien Abad: “What is happening is serious, and since the advent of MeToo, we are paying new attention to speech. women. Rape and sexual assault has been minimized for millennia, and it feels like something is going on […] Women’s voices must be heard, and decisions must be made. »
He also added that “there are clear signals to be given because we know very well that most women do not file a complaint, or do not follow through. We must tell them not to be afraid to file a complaint. For him, as for the policies of the NUPES, “this means that when there are striking, concordant testimonies, which tell a way of proceeding and if I have read the article correctly, there are presumptions that existed within the LR where we had a man who had complicated relationships with women. »
If the complaint against Damien Abad “was closed without further action”, Olivier Faure spoke of an “investigation [qui] was sloppy” and said that “this is a situation where crimes are taken too lightly in the criminal chain. ” If he were Prime Minister, the national secretary of the PS would have ” no reason to think that they are lying “, specifying ” that the word of women must be respected, and therefore that he cannot be in government to the moment. ” He also gave the Taha Bouhafs case as a counter-example: ” You have noticed that the same people attacked and reproached a NUPES candidate for these actions, but we dismissed him in five days […] I know that this can sometimes weaken the principle of the presumption of innocence, but the voice of women must be heard when it has been minimized. »
“Whatever it costs, we make the unemployed and those who cannot afford it pay. »
He then attacked the Macron government: “These are people subject to the will of the sole head of state. We have a government that has a roadmap that is vague to say the least. The president has sought to step over the presidential and now the legislative ones. On the appointment of Pap Ndiaye to the Ministry of National Education, Olivier Faure stuck to his positions: “Pap Ndiaye is the opposite of what Jean-Michel Blanquer has been at the head of the ministry in recent years. years. He explained to us that he was on a crusade against indigenism, wokism and intersectionality, but he is the one who brought woke thought to France who is Minister of Education. I don’t know what Pap Ndiaye will do, but it’s hard to understand the political line of this government and Emmanuel Macron. »
Olivier Faure criticized the fact that Emmanuel Macron does not care about citizens, addressing them directly: “You are not citizens but part of the market. He behaves towards you like someone from marketing, but the only policy he conducts is the policy he chooses himself. »
Is the Borne government on the left? “I don’t believe that retirement at 65 is a triangulation on the left,” he began, before continuing: “The first effect of this revival on the left, which makes us lead in the polls, is move the government. We are told about price freezes, and the pressure we are putting is already bringing the question of purchasing power back to the heart of the matter. I hope that we can seriously talk about salaries. »
What about pension reform? “For those who started working early or who had difficult jobs, they could leave earlier […] The injustice today of the reform proposed by Emmanuel Macron is that these people will contribute for all those who have studied for a long time and even though their life expectancy is lower than that of white collar workers. »
Olivier Faure concluded his interview by saying that “the French men and women, for the most part, did not want this reform. The reality is that we know very well where they want to go […] Whatever it costs, we make the unemployed and those who cannot afford it pay. »