The national secretary of the environmentalist party EELV Marine Tondelier, received on Tuesday by Élisabeth Borne, warned the Prime Minister that “without withdrawal” from her pension reform, “there would be no peace”. “He was told 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”, declared Marine Tondelier at the end of her interview, on the eve of a meeting of Elisabeth Borne with the unions. “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.
Tondelier claims to have alerted Borne to threats
The First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, received in turn by the Prime Minister to discuss the “general situation” of the country, affirmed 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 withdrawal. And if there is no withdrawal, we must give the floor back to the French,” he said before his meeting.
In addition, Marine Tondelier claimed to have “alert a lot” the head of government “to the fact that there is an upsurge (…) of threats and intimidation against environmentalists, not because of what they are doing. , but also 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”.
Darmanin “cannot be an arsonist and throw oil on the fire”
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 the 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 enormously crowded,” 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.