Faced with threats from the CGT, the executive now responds firmly.
As soon as the organization threatened on Monday to cut off the power to elected offices supporting the pension reform, the leader of the majority deputies, Aurore Bergé, recalled that such actions had "
no place in democracy
”.
It is the turn of the ministers in person to speak, emphasizing the seriousness of these intentions.
Invited on RTL this Wednesday, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin thus evoked “
absolutely scandalous
” facts.
“
Attacking an elected representative of the Republic whoever he is, and whatever his political side, putting pressure on him, an ultimately physical, violent change, that comes under a dictatorship, it does not come under a democracy
”, he insisted.
Measures to protect elected officials
At the end of the Council of Ministers, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, also designated these threats as being “
strictly unacceptable
”.
"
The democratically elected national representation is intended to exercise its role as legislator regardless of its convictions and its opinion
", he recalled.
Before ensuring: “
Anything that will come under pressure, threats, insults (…), we condemn them.
»
On this subject, Gérald Darmanin sent a “telegram” to the prefects today, calling on them to put in place new measures to protect elected officials.
In this document, which
Le Figaro
was able to consult, the minister evokes a context of mobilization against the reform project making elected officials "
likely to be the subject of malicious acts, threats, outrages, insults and damage to property
".
“
No act of intimidation, and a fortiori no violence, towards elected officials, in particular parliamentarians, is tolerable
”, it is written.
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The tenant of Beauvau therefore calls on the prefects to “get
closer to the elected officials
” to inform them of their “
mobilization
” and “
remind them of the steps to follow in the event of an incident
”.
It is also a question of "
strengthening surveillance around the offices of parliamentarians as well as their homes
", "
monitoring social networks in order to detect messages of hatred or threats
", as well as "
giving the security forces responsiveness instructions, and in particular carefully accompany elected officials when filing a complaint
".
“
Each incident will be systematically reported to the public prosecutor by the police and gendarmerie
“, he concludes.
Increasingly, elected officials, and more particularly parliamentarians, are the subject of actions targeting them directly, or targeting their offices or domiciles.
A bill brought by Senator Nathalie Delattre, and aimed at allowing assemblies and associations of elected officials to become civil parties to elected officials who are victims of aggression, must be examined in the National Assembly on Wednesday afternoon.
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