Manuel Valls: democracy or unemployment – Liberation

Five minutes 27 seconds. This is the time it took to Manuel Valls to justify its new use of Article 49-3, depriving Parliament of a vote on the Macron law for the second time in five months and playing background the opinion against the left.

In front of a half-empty chamber, the Prime Minister has placed on the side of “ French who do not understand procrastination ” this supposed text supporting the return to growth. It also emphasizes the pieces of the Macron law in polls acclaimed as easing procedures of driving license, restrictions on pensions hats or Sunday work. No word, however, on the absence of compensation enshrined in law for those working Sundays or limitation of severance pay before the tribunal, slipped at the last minute in an obese text. A demonstration holes he took over at the 20 hours of TF1 which he was the guest on Tuesday night.

“You have to go fast , repeated the Prime Minister. I do not want my country to submit ten days of parliamentary guerrilla “. Always justification on these “French” “expect” “speed” . Its majority, he says, “exists” . But no question of taking a risk on a text where some of his own troops would default.

“I know the standstills”

Introduce the use of constitutional weapon of 49.3 as a “act of effectiveness” rather than “act of authority” , is rather clever for that wants to embody the up, reform, political modernism. But deleterious to the parliamentarian left and the PS argued that the large gathering there less than two weeks at the Congress of Poitiers. Especially as, accused of social liberalism by some of his comrades in the PS, the head of government has lined up a bunch of arguments which have not odd in a straight manual.

“For too long, France suffers from blockages hampering its economy, which weighs on its initiatives, which slow its activity “, was sorry Manuel Valls. “I know the standstills, conservatism, I know some prefer posture reform” , he insisted, to the socialist slingers and benches of the left of the left more the opposition. Finally comes the clincher, brandished by François Hollande, Manuel Valls and Emmanuel Macron: spend days debating the Assembly is delaying job creation. “Our citizens expect these reforms. Is it democratic procrastinating “, replied the Minister of Economy to those who see in the 49-3 undemocratic weapon. The parliamentary debate after 437 hours of discussion on the text in both bedrooms and 2,000 amendments has lasted long enough for “ultimately are many fewer jobs, so many jobs lost” Valls completed. Democracy or unemployment, the string is a bit coarse.