The showdown between the presidential majority and the opposition is likely to last. The national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, and the deputy of the National Rally (RN) Jean-Philippe Tanguy denounced, Tuesday July 19, the refusal of the government to accept for the time being the amendments of the oppositions, even though he had promised compromises on the purchasing power “package”.
“The government has not accepted any amendment from all the oppositions, so you can imagine the anger that can grip us. We want to move forward, we want to dialogue. OK to compromise, OK to find solutions, but yesterday [lundi]nothing, we had no amendments”lamented Fabien Roussel on France 2.
“The French people need to know: the Prime Minister made a speech quoting the word ‘compromise’ all over the place, today there is nothing, no amendment accepted by the government, and we regret it”added the deputy from the North.
“Myself, I defended what is called a fallback amendment, at least that these premiums can contribute for retirement, Social Security, but refusal, refusal, refusal, refusal”he regretted, without specifying the position on the vote of the law of the communists, which must be decided Tuesday morning during a meeting of the Democratic and Republican Left group (GDR).
” Common sense “
After four and a half hours of exchanges in the afternoon, then in the night, the deputies did not come to the end of article 1er of the first bill, which provides for the continuation of “prize Macron”exceptional tax-free and desocialized bonus for employees.
“The government, for the moment, yesterday, did not accept any amendment from any opposition force, including the most moderate forces, even the centrists, they do not even accept amendments from people who have them. yet supported in the presidential election”criticized on RFI the deputy of the National Rally Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
“For example, yesterday, we talked for a moment about an amendment so that the Macron bonus would be a little overvalued in the overseas territories, according to the real cost of living, in each of the territories. Even such an obvious, common-sense amendment that was proposed by the socialists, they did not want to support it. We voted for it because it was a good idea.argued the deputy of the Somme.
“If the measures are good, we will vote for them. If we can improve the measures, we will do everything to improve them”said the former deputy director of the presidential campaign of Marine Le Pen.