The leader of the PS deputies Boris Vallaud did not mince his words this Sunday, describing Emmanuel Macron as a “madman (…) entrenched at the Elysée”. “Obstinacy is a bad adviser and we have a president who is a fanatic,” said the PS deputy from Landes, guest of the Grand Jury RTL / LCI / Le Figaro. He accuses him of having caused a crisis and a “democratic coup” by “brutalizing” Parliament and not listening to the street on pension reform.
“When you are entrenched at the Élysée and only listen to yourself, I don’t have so many other adjectives than that,” he replied to journalists who reacted to the use of the term “frenzied”. Asked about the words of the boss of the CFDT Laurent Berger who had spoken on Wednesday of “democratic crisis” on the eve of the eleventh day of mobilization against the pension reform, Boris Vallaud went further: “it is also political, institutional and social. It is the accumulation of all that which worries us and which drives us to despair”.
“Yes, it’s a political coup and it’s a democratic crisis,” he argued. “When you discredit social dialogue. That you step on the social partners (…), when you do not respect the parliamentary institution, that you brutalize it (…), that in the street you have people who demonstrate by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, yes it is is a democratic coup because you devitalize democracy,” he insisted.