The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Pensions: lively exchange between Emmanuel Macron and a teacher in Pau

2020-01-14T12:59:21.312Z


Emmanuel Macron was overtaken, during a visit to Pau on ecology, by the dispute over the pension reform. To the professor of c


Emmanuel Macron may keep a careful distance from the pension reform, the social conflict has finally caught up with him, in Pau. It was his first outing in the region since his trip to Amiens, on November 21 and 22. Contrary to his habit, he did not go out “in contact” - according to the Macronian jargon - of the inhabitants in the streets of this city posed at the foot of the Pyrenees. Access to the city center was filtered on Monday, at a summit bringing together the five leaders of the Sahel countries.

It is by arriving this Tuesday morning at the Palais Beaumont for a round table on the ecological transition that the president was taken to task by a professor of mathematics in a college, striker for eight days.

"You wander in the head"

Angry, the latter challenges him on pensions. President's Response: "Sir, I am nice. You are there, you shout at you and you are not friendly or respectful. Ignoring all this, I come to see you and I speak. Please don't give me a lesson in respect or apply them to yourself! "

The teacher replied: “To be heard, you sometimes have to shout Mr. Macron. "The president retorts from tick to tick:" The example is also useful ", he enjoins. His interlocutor cannot be dismantled: "It is not by giving the Legion of Honor to BlackRock ( Editor's note: Jean-François Cirelli, the President of France of this American multinational specialized in asset management, was recently decorated, triggering a controversy because it would benefit fully from the pension reform according to its critics ) and to the president of Sanofi that it is. "

"You wander in the head!" You mix it all up, it has nothing to do with it, ”said the president. "The pension reform is a gift to all these people," says the union teacher. People will be forced to contribute next! " " It's wrong! Macron thunders before entering the room where local elected officials are waiting for him. The president, who was to have breakfast with François Bayrou on Tuesday morning, was forced to revise his plans because lawyers had gathered in front of the town hall of Pau to demonstrate against the pension reform.

Source: leparis

All news articles on 2020-01-14

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-28T16:43:20.366Z

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.