The left alliance, the Nupes, did not “show its best face” during the debate in the National Assembly on the pension reform project and there will need to be an “after” based on the collective spirit and respect, estimates Sunday in the JDD the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud.
Socialists, ecologists and communists on the one hand, elected representatives of insubordinate France (LFI) on the other opposed during this debate on the strategy to follow. The former wanted to speed up the debates to arrive at the discussion on the article of the law relating to the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years. The latter maintained thousands of amendments and the debates got bogged down.
By our disunity, I fear that we have moved away from our double mission: to be at the service of those who have only their work to live and to be the fulcrum of the social movement, declared Boris Vallaud to the weekly.
La Nupes is a union of four: we must respect each other, which does not prevent disagreements. But we must remain within a common regulatory framework, and hold our positions when we decide on them together. We have come out of this common framework and certain aspects of the Assembly itself, he adds.
Boris Vallaud also deplores the excesses of certain LFI deputies, one of them even calling the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt an assassin in the middle of the Chamber.
The Assembly is not a tea room. There is room for passion and anger, but the limit is the drapes, threats and insults, he says.
Like the ecologists who are calling for an Act II of the Nupes, he calls for a reflection on the future functioning of the coalition.
We can give it whatever name we want but yes, for Nupes, there must be an after. It is possible and essential. This after must be more collective and more respectful of differences, he says.
In particular, he pleads for an operating charter for the parliamentary intergroup to improve consultation and regulation between us.