This is what Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Friday in the National Assembly.
The great debate shows that a "wall of distrust" separates the French from their representatives (elected officials, officials, trade unionists, journalists), said Tuesday Edouard Philippe before the National Assembly. If the practices of the political life were "considerably cleaned up", this mistrust thrived on "collective failures" as the "mass unemployment" and "the blockage of the social elevator" but also "clumsinesses and misunderstandings. And I take all my share, "said the Prime Minister in his speech learning the lessons of the great debate in front of the deputies.
Decline in purchasing power per capita since the economic crisis of 2008, concern to see his children live less well than oneself, remoteness ... after a first report of the big debate on Monday, the head of government continued his diagnosis on the causes of the crisis of "yellow vests", a term he did not mention.
Born of a "deep uneasiness of many of our compatriots", the movement "expresses a need for consideration and recognition, a willingness to be associated with the decision instead of undergoing it", he said, after six months of weekly events and three months of major national debate.