Busy meeting with LREM deputies this Tuesday. Edouard Philippe returned to the refusal of the extension of the leave after the death of a child by the Parliament, declaring "to assume" the "share of responsibility of the government" on this file, according to participants in this meeting.
On “this subject which has become a kind of fireball”, “probably, surely, part of the responsibility comes from the government. I assume. I am the head of government, "he said during this closed meeting during which he defended the Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud. "All those who will seek responsibility elsewhere, on Muriel, internally or externally, I tell them shit! », He hammered, to the applause.
MPs "sent to the front"
“We have not been able to collectively explain our position or adapt. The critics are hurting us very much, ”acknowledged the Prime Minister, who intends to“ get out ”of this situation from above. Several deputies who were present during the disputed vote last Thursday took the floor, refusing to say that "they voted out of loyalty", and rejecting the idea of an "error", the centrist proposal to extend the bereavement leave being "badly put together" according to them.
"We are taking the vote on a bad text on a sensitive subject on which we have far more efficient and protective proposals for more people," AFP said an elected official, several speakers saying in front of their colleagues their "anger" and their impression of "having been sent to the front and let go".
"We are many to take dearly"
A deputy denounced a "media frenzy" created by Emmanuel Macron himself by his intervention Saturday in this file, where the head of state asked for "humanity", according to a participant. Present at the meeting Tuesday morning, Muriel Pénicaud also criticized a centrist text "badly put together", and stressed that since Thursday, "we are many to take dear".
For the first vice-president of the Marie Lebec group, “we missed the point”. “I didn't like this expression of collective error at all. It is a management error by the government and the group, ”she said, still according to reported comments. "I do not accept that tenors who claim to be the majority treat the parliamentarians of the majority of" cons "when the only bullshit was to be loyal" also launched Aurore Bergé, according to a participant.
Referring to a "painful episode", the president of the Assembly Richard Ferrand pleaded for him to "stick together". Several deputies also called to take back the hand to "go further" than what the text UDI-Agir proposed, via a new bill, rather than letting the debates continue during the shuttle to the Senate, reported again some participants.
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