Barely had he finished speaking at Versailles when the Prime Minister was the target of criticism on social networks. “Attal, pathetic little person, makes the role of the rebels and President Mathilde Panot invisible in today’s decision.” hui”, exclaimed Jean-Luc Mélenchon in a message on X.
Attal, pathetic little one, makes the role of the rebels and the president invisible @MathildePanot in today’s decision. Sexism and sectarianism typical of a man without consistency who has never led any long-term fight.
— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) March 4, 2024
The head of government paid tribute to several female politicians who advanced the cause of abortion, starting with Simone Veil, followed by former socialist ministers Yvette Roudy, Martine Aubry, Marisol Touraine, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and Laurence Rossignol.
An invisibility of the people who tabled the legislative proposals
But not a word for the head of the LFI deputies, the first to draw up a constitutional bill in 2022 after the earthquake of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. “Why so much rudeness and sectarianism in this historic moment?”, reacted from the benches of Congress the rebellious deputy Manuel Bompard.
A few rows further, the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau also regretted the forgetting of the text tabled by her fellow senator Mélanie Vogel, and noted that Gabriel Attal “invisibilised the two women who tabled the legislative proposals that we are voting on today” .
A sign that politics was not absent from this consensual day, the Prime Minister indirectly attacked the National Rally, by establishing the constitutionalization of abortion as a “bulwark against the makers of misfortune”, in order to “stand in the way of madness men”, especially “to those of whom it is said they will never govern, they will never dare attack women”.
“The majority tries to make people believe there is a danger weighing on abortion” according to the RN
The boss of the far-right party, Marine Le Pen responded in advance to these criticisms upon arriving at Versailles, observing that “the majority is trying to make people believe there is a danger weighing on abortion” when “this danger does not exist”.
Going against the presidential camp welcoming a “historic day”, she mocked “a day that Emmanuel Macron organized for his own glory” while confirming that his deputies were going to “vote for this constitutionalization because it does not pose any difficulty for us particular”.