The national secretary of EELV and the first secretary of the PS were received by the Prime Minister, in Matignon, this Tuesday, April 4.
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Ihe Prime Minister continues her consultations after her forced passage of the pension reform. This Tuesday, April 4, Elisabeth Borne received the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV), Marine Tondelier, and the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, at Matignon. Both have called for the “withdrawal” of the pension reform.
Marine Tondelier thus warned the Prime Minister that, “without withdrawal” from the pension reform, “there would be no peace”. “He was told that there would be no peace without withdrawal. And, when I say that, it’s not a threat on my part, it’s the facts, it’s the state of mind of the country, ”she said after her interview. “I think we are at an impasse and that, as long as there is no withdrawal from this 64-year-old measure, we will not move on,” added the environmental leader.
Olivier Faure, he said on his arrival that he was going to ask for “the withdrawal” of the reform. “Today there is a democratic deadlock, so we have come to ask for the withdrawal. And, if there is no withdrawal, we must give the floor back to the French, ”he said before his meeting.
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“There will end up being a death”
In addition, Marine Tondelier claimed to have “alert a lot” the head of government “to the fact that there is an upsurge […] threats and intimidation against environmentalists, not because of what they do, but because of what is said about them all day long, including at the highest level of the State”.
She alluded to recent remarks by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denouncing “far-left intellectual terrorism” and associating the left-wing Nupes alliance with “the ultra-left of the 1970s”.
The Minister of the Interior “cannot be an arsonist and throw oil on the fire”. “It will have to stop because there will end up being a death”, warned the national secretary of EELV. “We need political leaders at the highest level of the state to have a speech of appeasement and stop presenting as terrorists all those who are on their left, that is to say, in the case of Gérald Darmanin , a lot of people, ”she insisted.
On the rekindled controversy over the maintenance of order after the clashes between gendarmes and opponents of water reservoirs (basins) on March 25 in Deux-Sèvres, she asked Élisabeth Borne “a convention, a consultation, where we can sit down and talk about the doctrine of maintaining French order”. EELV denounced the dissolution of the environmental collective Uprisings of the Earth, which co-organized the demonstration.
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