The First Secretary of the Socialist Party assured that the left “sought for two months to negotiate”, but that the Prime Minister said he was “prisoner of (his) common base.”
Invited this Tuesday, December 3 on BFMTV-RMC, Olivier Faure, First Secretary of the Socialist Party and deputy for Seine-et-Marne, strongly criticized Michel Barnier the day after the announcement by the National Rally of its intention to vote for censure against the Prime Minister on the Social Security budget, tabled by the New Popular Front (NFP).
“The Prime Minister only reached out to Marine Le Pen. The only one with whom he entered into dialogue, into discussion, even to the point of taking responsibility for it in a press release, and ultimately, he did not succeeded,” he said.
“Prisoner”
According to the politician, the left “sought for two months to negotiate with the Prime Minister. We tried to make proposals, to tell him that there was another possible path. The truth is that he “never, I mean never, tried to talk with us.”
“When he received our two different group presidents last week, he told them: 'I am a prisoner of my common base and I therefore cannot concede anything to you'. He admitted to being a prisoner and therefore not being able to do the slightest gesture in our direction even though he considered that among the projects we proposed there were certainly things that could be taken up,” he complains again.
Once again, Olivier Faure urged Emmanuel Macron to “appoint a left-wing Prime Minister” who “proposes to Parliament a left-wing project but with a permanent concern for compromise.”
Concessions
On Monday, Prime Minister Michel Barnier unsurprisingly engaged, via the activation of article 49.3, the responsibility of his government on the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), ensuring that he had been “at the end of the dialogue ” with political groups, including the National Rally.
The gestures announced by Michel Barnier to meet the demands of the flame party – in particular on the reimbursement of medicines – will not, however, have been enough, and the RN has announced its intention to vote for censure, with left-wing parliamentarians.
This Tuesday morning, the conference of presidents of the National Assembly should in all likelihood decide on the date – probably Wednesday or Thursday – of the debate and vote on the motions of censure tabled by the New Popular Front and the National Rally.
