Macron addresses the French after the “Pyrrhic victory” with the pension reform

The French President, Emmanuel Macronmust set the “course” of his mandate this Monday in a speech on television, in a climate of political crisis and permanent social after the enactment of his unpopular pension reform.

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“The president wants to take advantage of this opportunity to send a message to the French, now that the reform process of the I thoughtones that will certainly leave anger in the mind and in the heart from the people”He explained his surroundings.

Since January, hundreds of thousands of people, at the call of the unionsprotested against the delay of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years by 2030 and the advancement to 2027 of the requirement to contribute 43 years, and not 42, to collect a full pension.

Fearing that he would lose the vote in Parliament, Macron decided in March to adopt this law by decree and the Constitutional Council validated last Friday the key measures of its project and the procedure used for its adoption, a “pyrrhic victory”according to observers.

The unions warned of the “democratic crisis” Generated with the approval of a law that is rejected by a large majority of French people, according to polls, and the rapid promulgation of it in the early hours of Saturday accentuated their discontent.

“The contempt was until the end “lamented the leader of the main French union, the moderate CFDT, Laurent Berger.

The trade union centrals have already called demonstrations for May 1, which must become “a popular and historic tsunami”said the head of the CGT, Sophie Binet.

Meanwhile, opponents of the reform called on social networks for pans and concentrations in the city halls during the president’s speech scheduled for this Monday starting at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. GMT).

The representative unions of the SNCF railway company also called a day of “rail rage” on Thursday.

And a call to prevent the celebration of the 2024 Olympic Games scheduled for Paris if the government does not withdraw the reform is circulating more and more on social networks.

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Set the “course”

In his speech, broadcast on television, Macron should address the next steps and the “course” of his term until 2027, without an absolute majority that he enjoyed until June and that makes the approval of each project uncertain.

Your Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borneexpressed on Saturday the government’s commitment to continue its “reformist” agenda with initiatives on full employment, health or education, but forging alliances becomes more complicated in a tense social and political climate.

The president of the National Assembly (lower house), the ruling party Yaël Braun-Pivet, estimated that “the country is restless and angry” and that “this anger must be listened to.”

“We are not ready to move on”, warned the leader of the opposition Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, on the Public Sénat network.

Union leaders refused to speak to the government before May 1, despite a proposal to Macron. “The world of work is still in shock,” Berger said.

The far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whom the current crisis reinforces in the polls, for her part considered that the government is “discredited” and called on the president to call a referendum on the pension law, to dissolve the Assembly (lower house ) or to resign.

For the moment, after his speech, the president should quickly return to the street to “talk with the French”, according to his entourage. A scroll on the theme of education could take place on Wednesday or Thursday.

Source: Elcomercio

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