During a press conference held in a café in Rochefort on Monday January 20, the two socialist parliamentarians in the department (Senator Mickaël Vallet and the deputy for Saintes–Saint-Jean-d'Angély Fabrice Barusseau) spoke on their groups' position on government non-censorship. The words of “betrayal” uttered by the rebels do not pass muster.
Because despite “a rather hollow general policy discourse whose form did not deserve censorship”, in the words of Fabrice Barusseau, the PS highlights the “realities on the ground” translated by progress: “We have made move the government back on major points,” insist the two parliamentarians, listing a few examples: “no freeze on the pensions of 17 million retirees, the 4,000 professorships saved – “the academic director was waiting for the announcement to work on the school map” –, the increase in the health budget by 1.2 billion euros”.
“Evidence”
Among the feedback from the field, the Saintais MP deplores “the blocking of MaPrimeRénov'”.
Mickaël Vallet – for whom the French have never been so interested in the Constitution and the regulations of the Assemblies – emphasizes the great difference in nature between participating in a government or not. “If what we announce is not consistent, we will do everything to bring down the government with the only tool we have, censorship,” underline the two men who say they are working for “the unity of the left” to future electoral deadlines, particularly municipal ones. “Obviously, we have never won without unity of the left,” insists Fabrice Barusseau.
-In the meantime, the two men refuse to “deprive themselves of negotiating” for example to achieve the repeal of the pension reform within the framework of “a balance of power”.
As for the barbs exchanged remotely between François Hollande and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Mickaël Vallet decides: “We don't listen to them, they are stuck in 2012, it's back to the future. »
