He wanted to meet the “French who work early”. President Emmanuel Macron recovered this Tuesday, February 21 at ” common sense “ of the French and reiterated that he “have to work a little longer”during his first outing in direct contact with the French since the launch at the beginning of the year of his highly contested pension reform.
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“On the whole, people know that we all have to work a little longer on average, because otherwise we won’t be able to finance our pensions well”said the Head of State at the national interest market in Rungis, accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau and the Minister for SMEs Olivia Grégoire.
“Everyone has common sense”
After visiting veal cutting professionals, he defended a pension reform that “helps create more wealth for the country”. “We cannot continue to say ‘we have a crisis at National Education, we have a crisis at the hospital, how do we finance?’ »he assured at the beginning of this visit at dawn where he wished to transmit “a message of gratitude to all those who allow our country to turn, to live”.
“It’s like the budget of a household that of a nation”insisted the president who began this ritual visit to the largest fresh produce market in the world around 5:30 a.m. and where he was questioned upon his arrival on the pension reform, which plans to raise the retirement age from 62 at age 64. “If we don’t produce wealth, we can’t distribute it”he explained, convinced “that work must continue to pay more. »
“The less work is rewarded, the more we are praised for its ‘value'”
Convinced that “everyone has common sense”Emmanuel Macron pleaded for “a real debate in our society on work”while acknowledging “a difficult inflation context”of which the ” peak “ will, according to him, be achieved ” this semester “. Since the launch of the reform, Emmanuel Macron has hardly exposed himself, apart from a few trips abroad, during which he delivered sober and laconic messages on this reform, or very structured meetings.
This trip to the south of Paris, near “professionals who work from dawn” is also an opportunity to put the value at the center of its communication ” work “, described as a common thread of its action. The nod is clear to “the France that gets up early”the leitmotif of Nicolas Sarkozy during his victorious presidential campaign in 2007, also taken up since by the extreme right.
