New tension around the pension reform.
While parliamentary debates have escalated since the arrival of the government bill in the Hemicycle on Monday, a tweet from LFI deputy Thomas Portes has again blown on the embers.
And caused a small controversy this Thursday.
Wearing a tricolor scarf over his red down jacket, the elected official of Seine-Saint-Denis displayed himself with, at his feet, a balloon bearing the image of the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt.
An image completed by a claim: “
Mr. Minister, withdraw your reform.
»
If the text is not original, the photograph startled many majority deputies.
Including the President of the National Assembly.
Yaël Braun-Pivet considers that
"the tricolor scarf is not a theatrical costume"
and that the
"staging dishonours
" the elected Nupes.
Aurore Bergé, leader of the Renaissance group in the Assembly, also spoke in session to denounce an image where
“the head of Minister Olivier Dussopt was symbolically crushed by one of our deputies.”
"
I don't think that's how democracy should be treated.
“said the parliamentarian from Yvelines.
It must be said that the member of the government has been the target of opposition for several weeks.
And for good reason, the Minister of Labor was responsible for bringing the pension reform to the national representation.
The elected Renaissance of Paris Benjamin Haddad, meanwhile, saw in it in particular
"a shameful and unworthy call to hatred and violence."
His colleague from Hauts-de-Seine Maud Bregon, she castigated the pose of the Insoumis and challenges him:
“Are you serious?
Is that your vision of democratic debate?
Put yourself proudly on stage walking on the head of a minister, scarf on the shoulder?
I am ashamed for you La France Insoumise.”
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Finally, for the Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with Parliament Franck Riester, Thomas Portes
“is trying like Jean-Luc Mélenchon to make the challenge to the pension reform a surge of hatred.
"
Dare to have a substantive debate with Olivier Dussopt rather than playing sans-culotte
," he laughs.
Main target, the Minister of Labour, himself,
“It especially dismayed me (…) violence has no place in politics.
I saw this image, it reminds a lot of things, it is especially appalling for the author
,” said Olivier Dussopt.
In this controversy, the Nupes reacted little.
The PS deputy for Mayenne Guillaume Garot nevertheless affirmed that a “
deputy cannot do that
”, calling for an end to “
all violence, even symbolic.
Wherever she comes from, against whoever.
“Guest of BFMTV Thursday evening, the main leader of France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon preferred to kick in touch.
"
It's not his ball.
Who brought the ball?
Labor inspectors.
And so he kicked a ball ... It's a very big crime that must be committed immediately
, "he saw fit to ironize.
Seeing in it only a "
propaganda
" operation of the majority, the
"grotesque subject"
in relation to the challenges of pension reform.