Set a course for its second five-year term.
This is what Emmanuel Macron wanted to tend to, invited Wednesday evening on France 2, five months after his re-election.
While the President of the Republic has addressed all the topics that have punctuated French news in recent weeks, he has mainly focused on the pension reform that he intends to implement by summer 2023. And on the new political deal resulting from the legislative elections which did not give him an absolute majority.
On the first point, Emmanuel Macron praised a reform
"essential if we want to continue to preserve our social model".
While saying
"open
» a postponement of the legal age to 64 instead of 65, in the event of an extension of the contribution period.
A development that did not convince the opposition.
Whatever they are.
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And in particular not the president of the RN group in the National Assembly Marine Le Pen.
According to the former presidential candidate,
“retirement at 64 or 65 is neither useful nor desirable.
It is deeply unfair.
Emmanuel Macron, pressed by Brussels, announces this evening that he wants to implement it gradually from this summer.
Refusing also to index wages to inflation in a context of sharp price increases, Emmanuel Macron was retorted by his former opponent that he
"has nothing to offer the French to increase wages, fight against inflation, restore security and access to care.
»
A fight against this symbolic reform of the reforming DNA of the president and shared by the main leader of Nupes, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
On Twitter, the Insoumis first quotes Emmanuel Macron -
"no expert says that pensions are financed"
- to better resume, according to him, one of the points of the last report of the Pensions Orientation Council.
“The results do not validate the merits of the speeches which put forward the idea of an uncontrolled dynamic of pension expenditure”,
he explains.
On the side of the right, however brushed in the direction of the hair by the president of the Republic in his interview, one is not much more going.
"Basically, we still don't know where Emmanuel Macron wants to lead the country.
Day-to-day management, subject by subject, that makes debt but it does not make a policy, ”
explains the leader of the LR deputies in the National Assembly Olivier Marleix.
“Our country is experiencing urgent and massive crises everywhere.
Emmanuel Macron, he, talks.
The French pay every day for the impotence of empty words and the litany of hackneyed slogans”,
vituperates, meanwhile, Aurélien Pradié, deputy of Lot and candidate for the presidency of the Republicans.
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In his speech, the head of state also crushed the most extreme oppositions – the RN and the Nupes – which allied last Monday to vote together a motion of censure to bring down the government.
With a relative majority, Emmanuel Macron no longer has complete control of the parliamentary situation.
And can therefore see his government be overthrown if all oppositions get involved.
For the President of the Republic, the oppositions
“have shown one thing: they are not on the side of merit, of order, of work, of the solution, of progress, they are on the side of disorder and cynicism. .
It won't lead to anything.
These people will not be able to govern together tomorrow.
Anger that aroused the ire of those who were precisely in the sights of Emmanuel Macron.
“As for the vote of the motions of censure against his government, I invite him to reread the Constitution: everything is there”,
advised him Marine Le Pen.
On the other side of the political spectrum, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he raised his voice:
“The cynicism, the disorder is you, Mr Macron.
Your rage unmasks you.
You are just counting on the larbinization of the LRs to keep you in power.
Monday, the former presidential contender had mocked a
“right
(which)
saves the government narrowly.
“
It lacked 50 votes to eject the government
,” he added.
