Pension reform: LFI ‘lost everything’ in Assembly debate, Dussopt says

La France insoumise (LFI) “missed everything” in the debate on pensions in the National Assembly. It ended on Friday, when only two articles out of twenty were viewed. This is an observation made this Sunday Radio J Minister of Labor Olivier Dussaud, who also criticized the “violence” of the LFI.

“The LFI missed everything in this debate: the amendment was not adopted, the NUP split, half of the socialists deserted, so they were ashamed. Their strategy didn’t work, their tactics didn’t work, and they presented themselves in the worst possible light,” he lashed out at the reform minister.

“Violence is the trademark of the LFI,” Olivier Dussopte judged, “with a desire to deepen divisions, to create conflict between differences.” For him, “the goal is to delegitimize those with responsibilities, institutions in a kind of pseudo-revolutionary movement. There is no other will than to inflict pain and harm.”

“The ability to destroy rather than build”

The Minister said that he personally suffered from the attacks directed at him during the debate, and in particular against the LFI MP Aurélien Sentoul. “When you are called a killer in a half cycle, it’s insulting,” he said, adding. “That word is too much” and “it can’t be forgiven.”

The LFI MPs “have demonstrated their uselessness, their ability to destroy rather than build,” the labor secretary insisted, saying he longed for the debate to start in the Senate, where the left is the “republican left.”