How does Emmanuel Macron intend to get out of the pension reform crisis? After the promulgation of the reform this weekend, the Head of State must speak this Monday, April 17 at 8 p.m. A speech that he seems to want to turn towards the rest of the five-year term, while the executive and the majority come out shaken by this sequence.
The publication of the pension reform in the Official Journal just hours after its partial validation by the Constitutional Council was experienced as a new provocation by opponents. “Till the end contempt”judged the boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger.
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It is also a way of indicating that Monday’s speech, broadcast on the main television channels, should be forward-looking. However, to pick up the pieces after three months of intense social crisis, and with an executive damaged by the use of 49.3 and still deprived of a majority in the Assembly, the task promises to be immense.
“The president wishes to be able to have a message for the French on this occasion, as this moment around the pension reform ends, which undoubtedly leaves anger in their heads and in their hearts”we explain in his entourage.
According BFM TV, no major announcement is expected on Monday. On the channel on Sunday, Transport Minister Clément Beaune said that Emmanuel Macron should “setting the course for the coming months” and to provide “a kind of roadmap for the government”.
Calls from opponents of the reform have just flourished on social networks for pot concerts and rallies in front of town halls or prefectures at 8 p.m. The weekend was also marked by rallies of opponents of the reform, particularly in Rennes where a demonstration was marred by clashes.
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Emmanuel Macron is due to receive ministers and majority leaders in the afternoon. He should also quickly come out of the Élysée to “exchange with the French”. A minister explained last week that he wanted “that Macron spend more time on the ground”. A trip could take place on Wednesday or Thursday, on the theme of education.
Until then, the invitation to a meeting with the social partners on Tuesday is maintained, but the inter-union has already opposed it. She now keeps the course on the date of May 1, for which the general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet called for a “popular and historic tidal wave”. The secretary general of the CGT, Laurent Berger, wished him that on May 1, ” we “break the house” in number of demonstrators in the street ”. Four representative unions of the SNCF have also already called for a “day of expression of anger railway worker” THURSDAY.
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According to an Elabe poll for BFM TV published on Monday, more than 6 out of 10 French people (64%) believe that the protest movement against the reform must continue, a stable figure compared to March. 45% of them even want to see the movement harden. Nearly 7 out of 10 French people (69%) still say they are opposed to the reform.
