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Leave after the death of a child: Edouard Philippe "assumes" the share of responsibility of the government

2020-02-04T12:10:08.973Z


The Prime Minister spoke to the group of LREM deputies on Tuesday after the controversy sparked by the refusal to extend the leave.


"Probably, surely, part of the responsibility comes from the government. I assume ". This Tuesday, during the group meeting of LREM deputies, Edouard Philippe tried to put an end to the discomfort after criticism against the majority who, during a vote in the Assembly, refused to extend the duration of the leave after the loss of a child. While Minister Muriel Pénicaud has been widely criticized for this failure, including on behalf of elected LREM, the Prime Minister has come to her rescue.

“All those who will seek responsibility elsewhere, on Muriel (Editor's note: Pénicaud), internally or externally, I tell them shit! Critics to Muriel, it's going well! "

Pénicaud: "We are many to take dearly"

The Minister of Labor also spoke. “I have a thought for all those who are violently attacked on social networks, arrested in their constituency. We are many to take dear, "she launched on it and referring to the members who voted against the extension.

Several deputies have regretted in recent days that the group has been strongly criticized within the majority. "The LREM deputies are stupid, they do not know how to do the job and the Minister of Labor did it wrong", had released a tenor of macronie.

Ferrand: "We must stick together"

“Friends, launched them during the meeting the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand, I perceived how painful this episode is. I'm not trying to qualify it, error or not. When you're in pain, political, I hear, you have to stick together. ”

Edouard Philippe confirmed that the majority would propose a new text on the issue. “We have to get out of this situation. There are two options: the fast option and the slow option, he told LREM MEPs. Inaction is excluded. One of two things: either we go very fast, when we walk in the street it is better to look straight ahead and go quickly. We say yes, there is something to correct, we take responsibility for it, and we do something to correct it very quickly to move on to something else. Either, we have the slow option: we say that we approached the subject from a small angle, and we leave on a long reflection… ”

More information to follow on Le Parisien

Source: leparis

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