Asked on franceinfo if a woman would have led differently the social and political conflict that accompanied the postponement of the retirement age to 64, the deputy of Paris replied: "Margaret Thatcher would not have been very different but I think that here, we need to devirilize politics."
"It is not ultimately a question of the gender of the person who occupies the office, it is codes of power that are still very much imbued with warlords and a world that is collapsing," she argued.
It would be necessary to "get out of the figure of authoritarian leaders who impose and who emerge conquerors of social conflicts", she continued, pleading to "go towards cooperation, towards discussion, towards exchange, towards humility also because political representatives must be humble vis-à-vis the people they represent". "And me, I did not feel humility in Emmanuel Macron," added Sandrine Rousseau.
She also criticized "a stubbornness" of the head of state despite the massive challenge to the reform, finally promulgated last Friday. "He's in a personal matter," she described.
"In addition he puts himself on stage in front of the trade union movement, there have been leaks that said that he had +mastered +, that he had +beaten + the trade union movement," regretted the MP, denouncing "codes that are completely outdated" and which "are based on a policy that seems to me to be very dated in reality, from the 80s, a somewhat frenzied liberalism".
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