France’s Prime Minister Elisabeth Bourne called for “building compromises together” to address economic or climate challenges during her public policy statement in parliament on Wednesday. But, it did not convince the opposition parties.
“We all measure the scale of the task: to protect the French, to protect the Republic, to unite our country, to protect the planet”, Ms Bourne listed in the National Assembly. The Left filed a motion to censure his speech for about an hour and a half.
While defending the results of Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, the prime minister promised to hear “the message” from voters who lost the president’s camp an absolute majority in the legislature. ‘With the referendum results, they are asking us to act and act differently,’ said Ms Bourne.
‘Giving Meaning to the Word Reconciliation’
Listing the challenges posed by Ukraine’s war or ‘environmental emergency’, he called for a return to a ‘balanced path’ on public finances and urged MPs to give ‘meaning and virtue to the word reconciliation’.
He admitted that ‘we may not agree on all the solutions’, but that ‘the French are asking each other to talk more, to talk better to each other and to build together’.
Faced with the risk of deadlock in an assembly where the Macronist camp has a relative majority, the prime minister hammered home that “disruption and instability are not options”, upsetting political life that has been “for too long (…) opposite constituencies’.
A call for pension reform
On merits, the Prime Minister confirmed that the Purchasing Power Bill tabled in the Cabinet on Thursday would include “firm, swift and effective” measures against inflation.
As a guest at 8:00 pm on TF1, he measured this set of new measures at around 20 billion euros. “Emergency aid at the beginning of the school year,” he noted, 100 euros per household for the most modest. As the debate over ‘crisis profits’ grows, he urges companies that can ‘afford it’ to raise wages.
Long awaited in climate, Ms. Borne, while rejecting the path of “development”, pleaded for “serious answers” before the delegates. He also announced his intention to re-nationalize 100% of EDF, confirming that ‘the energy transition is going through nuclear energy’.
He highlighted the explosive issue of pensions, arguing that France ‘needs’ a reform which ‘will not be uniform and must take into account long careers and hardships’. “Yeah, we’ll have to work on it gradually for a while,” she said, prodding a lunge on her left.
Police support
Addressing the ‘security struggle’, the Prime Minister extended his support to the police. “Shame on those who systematically attack our police officers”, he said, referring to Insoumis leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whom he accused of “murdering” the police.
With the Covid-19 pandemic on the rise again, Ms. Borne suggested.
Reviews
Ms. These calls for compromise by Borne did not convince key opposition leaders, who took over from the Prime Minister on the floor of the Assembly, at times challenging his legitimacy.
Marine Le Pen said her maintenance in Matignon after the legislative elections was a “political provocation”. ‘The President acts as if nothing has happened’, but ‘the return of politics rushes upon him’. The leader of the National Rally (RN) however said in some speeches that “pathways” were possible.
‘Now your strategy is ‘who can’. And you are ready for anything. Never compromise but all compromises’, taunted Mathilde Panot, head of the LFI delegation, in an address by Elizabeth Bourne, who had abandoned the delegation’s vote of confidence.
More accommodating, Olivier Marleix (LR) promised that his team would not engage in any “compromise” with executives, but that it would favor certain texts.
Following these criticisms, Elizabeth Bourne, as usual, took to the stage to respond to a debate which she deemed ‘very caricature’. “There are groups that support personal attacks and are incentivized over dialogue,” he said. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister thought he had found “points of common ground” with some in the opposition.
reaches the Senate
In the evening in the Senate she continued her excellent oratory, Mrs. Bourne called for “inspiration” from the senators’ “experience” and promised to work in “close cooperation” with local elected officials. She reiterated the need to ‘build together’ compromises.
“Keep it up, Prime Minister,” replied Senate President Gerard Larcher, while Ms Bourne’s words drew applause. At the same time, Mr. In an interview with Midi Libertarian, Larcher confirmed that ‘the government needs to lend a hand’ and propose a ‘new system’ where texts at first reading in the Upper House are ‘less involved’. In Political Conspiracy’.
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