While the pension reform is currently being debated in the Social Affairs Committee, the PCF deputy Sébastien Jumel defended the power cuts targeting parliamentary offices.
The pension reform has not yet arrived in the hemicycle of the National Assembly that it is already hotly debated in parliamentary committee. Just like the protest movements around it.
The text, currently being examined by the Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee, is the subject of several thousand amendments. The opportunity for the oppositions to underline their hostility to the text of the government, and for some to defend in particular the fact of cutting off the electricity to a permanence of a deputy of the majority.
“If you are cut off for 2-3 hours in your hotlines, I don’t want to hear you cry,” said PCF deputy Sébastien Jumel as boos and cries rang out in the committee room.
“Don’t provoke”
The parliamentarian took advantage of his speaking time to defend the special scheme for employees of the electricity and gas industries which will disappear if the pension reform is adopted.
“If we come knocking on your door to explain the bad reform to you, you will not come crying. I invite all the employees who are victims of this to come and discuss with the parliamentarians, to come to our offices and explain what what is happening here in committee, and do it in a form of social democracy, active, dynamic and interactive, right in the eye”, he called.
“You cut the juice two hours a day, when you cut the juice to the precarious of energy, it’s not the sea to drink”, continued the PCF deputy.
“Please don’t provoke, it’s unbearable,” replied the president of the social affairs commission Fadila Khattabi. “I’m going to put the church back in the middle of the village, and if you allow it with a touch of humor, I would even say the mosque in the middle of the bled, in the middle of the douar…”
“You give a bad image”
“Frankly, when we have this kind of intervention where we are provocative and lecture us on ‘you don’t like public service’, no. You do the questions and the answers, it’s unbearable”, added Fadila Khattabi. “President, I prefer when the school is in the middle of the village,” replied Sébastien Jumel.
“It’s still incredible to be a legislator and to ask that we do not respect the law”, denounced the deputy RN Thomas Ménagé, also present in committee. “It’s really sad, you give a bad image and I think voters will tell you that.”
“We at the National Rally, even if we support this special regime, we are not calling for blackmail and putting pressure on elected officials, he said, “you cannot support this blackmail […] it’s anti-democratic.”
“We are going to bring anger into this commission”
PCF deputy Sébastien Jumel maintained his words a few minutes later: “I confirm that I am less prevented from sleeping at the idea that those who have fur coats could be deprived of 2 or 3 hours of electricity during the day. “.
“We are going to bring anger into this commission. We are going to push you around until you withdraw”, he finally concluded.
