"I will not give in to any intimidation", said Monday the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes and president of the party Les Républicains (LR) Éric Ciotti, the day after the stoning of his office, while denouncing the "errors" of the government which caused the anger of the French.
An investigation was opened on Sunday after degradations against the permanence of the deputy in Nice. About 280 demonstrators then gathered in front of this local to ask Mr. Ciotti to vote the motions of no confidence against the government.
"What is unbearable is putting pressure on elected officials to vote. I hear the anger of the French people, it is the result of the mistakes of this government, but I will not give in to any intimidation, any threat, no pressure," said Mr. Ciotti on the BFM Côte d'Azur channel.
“Of course I condemn, my principle is that we do not show violence in a democracy”, reacted on RTL the patron saint of deputies RN Marine Le Pen, recalling that “the National Rally is very regularly victim of degradation of its permanence".
Mr. Ciotti, in favor of pension reform, estimated that the "vast majority" of LR deputies will not vote for the motions of censure presented on Monday after the government's decision to use 49.3 to pass its highly contested reform pensions.
While some MPs in his group - "very few", according to him - could vote in favor of one of these motions against the government, he did not answer on an exclusion from the party of those who would deviate from the advocated line.
The movement "may harden, and that is why the government must be more attentive, more attentive, must treat the social partners less with contempt, in particular, as it has done until today. today,” he added.
20/03/2023 09:36:08 - Marseille (AFP) © 2023 AFP
