The attacks against Eric Coquerel do not pass to Nupes. The leaders of the four parliamentary groups of the left alliance denounced Monday evening the “pressures” and the “threats of ousting” aimed at the president LFI of the finance committee, in a letter addressed to the president of the Assembly.
A series of elected Macronists and ministers have criticized in recent days the “partisan attitude” of Eric Coquerel during the examination of a bill attempting to repeal the pension reform. Some even wondered about his renewal at the head of the Finance Committee at the start of the school year.
An attack on the “principle of separation of powers”
In their letter, Mathilde Panot (LFI), Cyrielle Chatelain (ecologist), Boris Vallaud (PS) and André Chassaigne (PCF) denounce “numerous pressures and attacks exercised” against Eric Coquerel, “and through him against the independence of his function vis-à-vis the government and its supporters. “These attacks went so far as to take the form of threats of ousting, in particular from the president of the Renaissance group (Aurore Bergé), and sometimes undeniably inappropriate remarks”, they criticize.
In this letter addressed to the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance), the leaders of the Nupes also point the finger at the remarks of the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne or the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, seeing it as an attack to the “principle of separation of powers”.
Before the examination of the bill proposed by the Liot group attempting to repeal the pension reform, Eric Coquerel had deemed the text admissible, when the macronists considered it contrary to article 40 of the Constitution, which prevents parliamentarians from creating additional financial charges. The Liot text had finally been unraveled and then withdrawn during the session of June 8 in the hemicycle.
In a recent interview with AFP, the President of the Assembly evokes the situation of Eric Coquerel. “Some wonder about the way in which he carries out his mission of control. But this is an internal subject for the Finance Committee. What matters to me is that our customs are respected and that the presidency of this commission is attributed to an opposition group, ”she underlines.