France continues on strike, tense, angry and
the popularity of President Emmanuel Macron
suffers.
He is paying a heavy price for pension reform and violent protests.
The president's confidence has deteriorated in the last two months vis-à-vis the French and should worry him.
The proportion of French people who do not trust him has gone
from 57 percent to 70 percent
, with the strike in the middle.
But the worst thing is the rise of those who "don't trust him at all."
Now they are 50% (+9 points in a month).
We have to go back to the crisis of the "yellow vests" to see such a high rate against the Head of State: 57% in April 2018. The record, held by François Hollande, has certainly not yet been surpassed (60% in 2015 ) .
Regime crisis?
Political crisis or regime crisis?
It is a valid question for the French when polls show that Macron
does not have the political power
to apply the reforms or a parliamentary majority.
Polls show Macron does not have the political power to implement the reforms.
Photo: Reuters
How can Emmanuel Macron continue to push through his reforms when he can no longer rely on their support alone?
Among Republicans, among whom he hopes to find allies to form a more stable majority, only 26% (-17) trust him.
Elisabeth Borne, his prime minister,
does not help him
.
His confidence index collapsed by 6 points after the application of article 49.3 of the Constitution, in the National Assembly, to have the pension reform approved.
Has the government changed as the unions demand?
If I had to decide to change the tenant of Matignon, three ministers float: Bruno Le Maire, the current minister of the economy, Gabriel Attal, minister of public action and former spokesman, and Olivier Véran, former minister of health during Covid, neurologist and today government spokesperson.
the extremes advance
The fear in this crisis
that the extremes will advance
.
The crisis allows the extreme right to grow with Marine Le Pen, and the extreme left of Jean Luc Mélenchon of the Unsubmissive France, wants to declare himself
the "tribune of the republic"
if the former National Front advances.
The president of the National Regrouping, as the former National Front has been renamed, rises to the third step.
Those who doubted that the RN knew how to take advantage of the crisis derived from the pension reform have an answer: Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella advance.
Marine Le Pen is not far from first place!
He grew 6 percent.
Another very French phenomenon.
The strategy of the communist party seems more profitable than that of France Insumisa.
His boss, Fabien Roussel, advances and now distances Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The latter is even surpassed by what could be a rival in the 2027 presidential race, François Ruffin.
booed
With France in renewed strikes, the head of state wants to keep the promised announcements.
When France faces
a brutal drought
, which anticipates a very dramatic availability of water for the summer, Emmanuel Macron announced the "water plan" in Savines Le Lac, in the Hautes Alpes, on the shores of Lake Serre Poncon.
A long-awaited plan given the lack of water and global warming.
Emmanuel Macron meets with local authorities in Savines-Le-Lac.
Photo: Reuters
When he arrived by helicopter he was greeted by
angry protesters who booed him.
The Head of State, accompanied by his Minister for the Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, first addressed a few words to the press.
Asked about the social crisis surrounding the pension reform, Macron judged that the challenge "does not mean that everything must stop."
On the violence observed last weekend in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), Emmanuel Macron said that the police attacked "thousands of people who had simply
come to make war".
The water and the ecowatt
On the Ecowatt model for energy, Emmanuel Macron announced the establishment at the beginning of May of an "Ecowatt of water".
This tool "will allow everyone to be empowered," according to the Head of State.
This device will allow "knowing the actions to be taken and the water situation".
"We are going to ask each sector
for a sobriety plan in the water for the summer
," Emmanuel Macron also announced.
"The ministers will meet the different sectors in the coming days: tourism, culture," he said.
Communities will also be mobilized, "and state buildings will be equipped with rainwater harvesting mechanisms and agro-efficient equipment," he said.
"Beyond the emergency and the short term, the heart of the water plan, with its fifty measures, is above all a plan for sobriety and efficiency over time," said Emmanuel Macron.
The objective announced by the president is by 2030 "to save 10% of water in all sectors".
The Head of State
listed five main areas of work
: “accelerate sobriety everywhere and over time”, “fight against leakage”, “invest in the reuse of wastewater”, “support the transformation of our model agriculture” and “implement water prices everywhere”.
“We must establish a progressive and empowering price for water,” said Emmanuel Macron.
“That doesn't mean that the price of water is going to increase,” he stressed, however.
In detail, "the first m3 are invoiced at a reasonable price, close to the cost price.
It is the water that we all need.
Beyond a certain level, the price per m3 will be higher”, explained the Head of State.
The agricultural sector
“Are today's sectors still adapted to tomorrow's climate?
We must ask ourselves this question”, Emmanuel Macron further challenged.
The Head of State points out the evidence of development for certain territories, “other cultural patterns”.
"We will have to reinvent the agricultural models in our Republic."
To do this, it promises aid of 30 million euros to farmers to apply "intelligent systems" for water use, such as "drip".
The plan also aims to maximize water storage in the soil, with "more hedges and more trees, where possible", as well as "new works".
Regarding the artificial storage of water for farmers, Emmanuel Macron insisted, alluding to the opposition to mega-basins such as Sainte-Soline, in the inclusion of these projects in a "clear" framework.
“It's not about privatizing water! He said.
Paris, correspondent
ap
look too
France: the pension reform goes to the Constitutional Council that will decide whether to repeal it or legalize it
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