"The Elysee is not a park to shelter the whims of the president," tweeted Olivier Faure. "When a president has no majority in the country, no majority in the National Assembly, he must withdraw his project," he added.
The coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard denounced "the permanent coup de force". "The people are against them. Let's get them out," he pleaded.
For the leader of the communists Fabien Roussel, "this reform will be illegitimate," he told the press. "We still have a tool, the Referendum of shared initiative (recourse to the initiative of parliamentarians and citizens, editor's note). In this case, we have a good campaign ahead of us and in the meantime the reform will be suspended. Parliament will have been flouted and humiliated to the end."
"We will not stop there," abounded on Twitter the national secretary of EELV Marine Tondelier, stressing that "in the street, the 49.3, it does not exist". "Emmanuel Macron's choice to use 49.3 is fraught with meaning and illustrates his contempt, failure and brutality," she added.
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