The rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon maintains “a strategy of destabilizing our society” by multiplying “the clashes”, estimated Sunday on Radio J François Bayrou, the boss of the MoDem, pleading for “order” against “those who would like to achieve chaos”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon has “a strategy of destabilizing our society, by multiplying confrontations. It is a strategy to obtain the takeover of society by an ideological movement which would impose its view on others and that is what ‘we call it a revolution,’ argued François Bayrou.
François Bayrou criticizes the “movement of destabilization and destruction”
Faced with this protest movement, François Bayrou claims to have “always been on the side of the reformists” who say “Let’s take our world as it is”. Because, “we cannot find a country in which education is free, health is free, unemployment is guaranteed to everyone and retirement is guaranteed to everyone”, insisted the High Commissioner for Planning .
François Bayrou also castigated the “movement of destabilization and destruction”, led by the perpetrators of violence in the demonstrations, “a thoughtful, concerted movement, without any link with reality” based on “a nihilistic ideology” which aims to ” taking control of society through violence”.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, 441 police and gendarmes were injured Thursday during the mobilizations against the pension reform. On Saturday, a prohibited demonstration against basins in Sainte-Soline in Deux-Sèvres also turned into a confrontation between gendarmes and activists. Faced with accusations of police violence, François Bayrou admitted that there could “be slippages”. But the police “have families, they have children, they have their worries and their situation is not mirobolant”, he put forward. “There are men behind the helmets”, “who are hurt by being constantly thrown into popular condemnation”, he supported.
“Avoid politics in fits and starts”
Regarding the pension reform, François Bayrou admitted “shortcomings” of the majority: “what was missing is that we simply explain the situation to each of the French citizens and that everyone can get an idea”, has he pleaded, referring to “a misleading or overly optimistic presentation” on the state of the pension plan accounts.
“Everyone was complacently mistaken, majority and opposition”, he assured, just sparing Emmanuel Macron who “at least said the words to him about the situation in the country”. Faced with the political crisis, François Bayrou affirmed that it was better “to avoid politics in fits and starts”, by a dissolution, a massive reorganization, or a radical change of course. But “I think there will inevitably be reconfigurations (…) for the entire executive,” he added.