Emmanuel Macron, very unpopular since the forced adoption of the pension reform, has announced his intention to “re-engage” all over the place in the debate, with the stated desire to get in touch with the French and to appease the country by July 14. But with each trip, his pans.
This Monday, he was in Ostend in Belgium to take part in a “top of the sea” bringing together nine European countries. But under the flags of the French NPA party and the Offensive – a Lille citizen collective – demonstrators gathered around 4 p.m., shortly before the scheduled arrival of the French head of state, on a bridge leading to the port.
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“We are here, we are here, even if Macron does not want to”in particular intoned these demonstrators, many of them banging on pots and small pans, in front of a row of barbed wire and about twenty police officers blocking access to the bridge. “Retirement at 60, we will fight to keep it”, they also chanted. More and more frequent scenes.
Where does the movement of pans come from?
The two trips made last week by the French president to Alsace and Hérault, after weeks of mobilization against the pension reform, had already been marked by mobilizations.
“It will not prevent the government from moving forward”
While the demonstrators follow him wherever he is announced and the movements of some of his ministers are severely disrupted, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed on Monday that “disagreements” et “the protests” were “completely legitimate in a democracy”.
In Lyon, the visit of the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye disrupted by demonstrators
“The incivility which consists in covering voices or preventing people from doing their job is unacceptable and therefore it will not prevent the government from moving forward, nor your servant”he assured.
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Determined therefore to continue his visits to the field, Emmanuel Macron will go on Tuesday April 25 to Vendôme in the Loir-et-Cher, during a trip on the theme of health. The Head of State, accompanied by the Minister of Health François Braun – also welcomed a few days ago by a concert of saucepans during a trip to Montreuil – will visit the multidisciplinary university health center (MSPU) in the city. .
In particular, he will discuss with the nursing staff on “issues of access to care, attractiveness of the profession and training”said the Elysée, in a context of growing medical desertification in the territory.
