Insults on social networks where their names are published, arrests on the markets: the least we can say is that the 36 LREM deputies who voted last Thursday against the UDI proposal to increase the leave of grief for the death of a child does not live easy moments. And it was not the words of this tenor of macronie who called the LREM deputies "cons" on Sunday in our columns that appeased things! Even the Elysée, in view of the rising controversy, has distanced itself by asking the government to reconsider "humanely" this position.
“We are caught in the crossfire: on the one hand, the opinion which, rightly, says that we screwed up and on the other, a part of the executive who calls us idiots . The idiots , they are deputies who were just loyal to the government ", annoyed Aurore Bergé who said he had not participated in the vote on Thursday. The member is however heckled because the site of the National Assembly displays the opposite.
“The bill (PPL) was poorly worded. The subject is support by French society, not the number of days off ”, persists LREM MP Michèle Peyron who abstained on the whole of the PPL and who herself lost a child over thirty years ago.
"We voted in conscience"
"I hear the argument that extending from 5 to 12 days for employees is insufficient but at some point, actions must be taken," reacts Belkhir Belhaddad. This member for Moselle is one of the three LREMs to vote in favor of the amendment and against the position of his own family. "I felt a certain embarrassment in my colleagues, I voted in my soul and conscience", continues the one who says "respect" the position of each.
"We voted in conscience, I thought it could be heard," defends Carole Bureau-Bonnard, who spoke against the extension. If she defends herself on the merits, she admits with lip service: "If this is a political trap, we may have fallen into it ..." But "the error is collective", she believes: "If the tenor who calls us an idiot was so tenor that he should have seen the trap before. Everyone wakes up after… ”
For some parliamentarians, the separation of the executive goes badly. “There was a lack of vigilance by the group's presidency, the ministry of relations with the Parliament. The UDI trapped us and Pénicaud screwed up. In short, it screwed up on all floors, "gets angry a member who wonders very loudly:" Is it a good idea for the government to get on the back of the group just before the discussion on pensions? The discussions at the next group meeting could be heated.