François Bayrou delivered his general policy declaration on Tuesday January 14 before the National Assembly. The Prime Minister notably indicated that he was postponing the pension reform “under construction, with social partners” sans “no taboo”but without suspending it. On the other hand, in the absence of an agreement, the current reform will continue to apply, indicated the Prime Minister.
LFI and environmentalists will vote for censorship
In response, the rebels have already announced that they will vote for censorship. “Since Mr. Bayrou refuses the vote of confidence, we impose a vote of no confidence on him. Those who do not vote for this motion of censure will be complicit in the ravages of Macronist politics.”we can read in a message shared by the La France insoumise group on Instagram and shared by the party's leaders, Manuel Bompard and Mathilde Panot.
The leader of the Insoumis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who followed François Bayrou's general policy declaration from the National Assembly, shared a message on X: “Bayrou: smoke-filled speech”, he writes. LFI-NFP MP Clémence Guetté also reacted on Instagram. “Bayrou is bad. He confirmed that he would not move on anything. The circus is over: the negotiations only served to humiliate those who participated in it. It is now censorship or dishonor”, she warns. For Eric Coquerel, president of the Finance Commission, “it's a speech in which there is nothing. And that should convince us even more to censor it. (…) We'll see what the socialists do, but I don't see how a consistent opponent can give this government a reprieve, and even more so if it is an opponent of the NFP.”
The environmental and social group also announced that it will vote “in two days” censorship against the government of François Bayrou, assured the president of the group, Cyrielle Chatelain, “appalled” by a “needy speech” et “vague”. “As long as this government persists, remains sectarian and refuses to take measures to change the lives of the French, we will censor itsays Cyrielle Chatelain. In two days we will vote on censure.” Same tone for the Somme deputy François Ruffin, who sits with the ecological and social group: “Neither cancellation, nor repeal, nor freezing, nor suspension… It will therefore be the censorship of the Bayrou government”, he decided.
For the socialists, “the account is not there”
The president of the socialist group Boris Vallaud judged that “the account was not there” after François Bayrou's speech. Faced with the announcement that everything was “negotiable” on pension reform, including the retirement age of 64, he was delighted to see his “request” satisfied: “the prospect of a law before the summer, we take it”, he declared. But “our goal remains repeal”, continued Boris Vallaud before the Assembly. However, Boris did not indicate whether his group would vote to censure the government. “For us things are clear, we remain in opposition. We refuse schemes and combinations. We do not join you.”
“No guarantee was given to the PS”, reacted PS deputy Philippe Brun to the press at the National Assembly. “We can vote on censure from Thursday, this is the wish of many of our colleagues”, he warned.
-The right congratulates itself, but remains “vigilant”
“I am pleased that the pension reform has been neither repealed nor suspended. But we must remain vigilant to prevent the debt from increasing. Now, time to act on debureaucratization, decentralization and the reduction in public spending” , reacts on X the LR president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse on X.
On franceinfo, Republican Right MP Vincent Jeanbrun also welcomed the fact that François Bayrou “understood that there was a need for budgetary seriousness”. “On the question of pensions, we weighed in with all our strength with Laurent Wauquiez and Gérard Larcher, we are very happy to have been heard and not to have fallen into the big economic bazaar”explains the elected official from Val-de-Marne declaring that “for the Republican Right, we are satisfied to have heard many of the themes that we support and defend: the revaluation of work, order with security policy and agriculture.”
“We cannot say that the Prime Minister was extremely precise. We will judge on his actions”for his part declared Olivier Marleix to the press at the National Assembly, evoking “a speech that doesn’t offend anyone.”
“Disappointment” for the RN, but no censorship
“At the end of a soothing speech, François Bayrou demonstrated that he was not the man of rupture, but the man of sluggish continuity, of chatter and “endless” consultation. Nothing about the power of “purchase, nothing on insecurity, nothing concrete on immigration: the lives of the French are largely absent from this speech for nothing”, writes on X the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella.
Among the speakers who paraded at the podium, the RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy also castigated “big things and big things” announced by the Prime Minister, speaking of a “disappointment”. Ce speech “is not intended to reassure us”, however, the RN will not “not today”vote for censorship, declared on franceinfo Sébastien Chenu, RN deputy. “We can reserve the right to vote for censure on budgetary acts”, even if “here we have a Prime Minister who is not very enthusiastic, very far from the ambition we should have for our country”. “It is a speech which lacks ambition, breath, which remains very abstract”castigated Sébastien Chenu. “Such a long, soporific speech, we didn’t expect much, we are still very disappointed.”
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