2024-01-22 17:35:52
Published22. January 2024, 6:35 p.m.
France: Gabriel Attal would prepare “a program of general suffering”
Instead of his general policy declaration, the Prime Minister is preparing “a program of general suffering”, said the coordinator of France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard, on Monday.
Gabriel Attal, January 20, 2024.
AFP
Gabriel Attal “claimed to receive us to prepare a general policy speech. We rather had the feeling that we were preparing for a program of general suffering,” declared, at the end of an interview with the Prime Minister, the LFI deputy Manuel Bompard alongside the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot. “What is on the agenda on February 1 of this year is an immense explosion in the cost of living,” added the rebellious official.
According to Ms. Panot, who said she met “the president’s spokesperson” Emmanuel Macron, the head of government does not want to “return” to the increase of almost 10% in electricity prices, nor put in place a “control of margins” made by supermarkets and agri-food manufacturers or “floor prices” for farmers, who are currently demonstrating once morest financial charges and environmental standards. The head of government “did not seem to understand the responsibility of his policy in this concern” of farmers, said LFI officials, who promised to “go to (their) meeting” to present their proposal in particular law on “floor prices” which was rejected in the fall.
Manuel Bompard, coordinator of France Insoumise (archive image).
AFP
A “flash of lucidity”
According to Ms Panot and Mr Bompard, Gabriel Attal also described the deposit required from foreign students in the immigration law as “huge bullshit”. “It was the flash of lucidity of the meeting,” according to Mr. Bompard. But he told them that “yes”, the law would be promulgated regardless of the censorship of the Constitutional Council, which must rule on this text on Thursday. Mr. Attal also refused to comment before them on the controversies involving his Minister of National Education and Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, they reported.
On the Socialist Party side, its First Secretary Olivier Faure deplored following his interview that Gabriel Attal was “there to make (Elisabeth) Borne faster, more powerful, to accelerate the program which had already been planned”, with a “third reform of unemployment insurance, nothing on (the prices of) electricity, nothing on purchasing power, nothing but the desire to continue to deregulate. “There is a way in him of saying ‘listen, I came from the left, but deep down I am only looking for on the right what might allow me to continue being Prime Minister,’ reported the PS leader alongside the leaders of deputies Boris Vallaud and senators Patrick Kanner.
“There is a form of assumed cynicism in (Gabriel Attal)”
Olivier Faure, First Secretary of the Socialist Party
The three officials expressed their “compassion” for the “mistreated” farmers but Mr. Faure judged that accelerating the construction of water reserves, as proposed by the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau, was “not the path to follow” and that it was necessary to “reconcile” the ecological question and the agricultural question. “It is not by giving in to the pressure of a few that we will resolve the issue,” he said. Gabriel Attal continues his meetings this week with political forces and associations of elected officials to “feed” his general policy declaration of January 30.
(afp)
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