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From Beijing, Emanuel Macron keeps an eye on Laurent Berger

2023-04-05T18:55:47.084Z


In the middle of a diplomatic trip to China, the president remains concerned about pension reform, and in particular about the violence stirred up by the far left.


Special Envoy to Beijing

Emmanuel Macron steps forward behind the desk of the French Embassy in Beijing.

At the same time in Paris, the unions settled in front of Elisabeth Borne to ask her to withdraw the pension reform.

Barely time for Emmanuel Macron to finish his speech to the French community in China and to shake a few hands in the audience that the unions are already on the steps of Matignon to denounce a "democratic crisis"

.

The meeting failed.

On the eve of a new day of mobilization against the reform, the opposite would have been unexpected to say the least.

But the unions' words are harsh, despite everything.

The President of the Republic is immediately informed.

We can work from Beijing to try to convince Xi Jinping to moderate his support for Vladimir Poutine while keeping an eye on the mood of Laurent Berger and Sophie Binet.

Obviously, she is bad.

Even if Emmanuel Macron has a tendency to rejoice that the unions have accepted the invitation of Elisabeth Borne.

"The mark of mutual respect",

we want to believe in his entourage.

But all the same, around the head of state, it fulminates severe.

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“That an elected president with an elected majority, admittedly relative, seeks to carry out a project which has been carried out democratically, that is not called a democratic crisis ,

storms a good source at the Élysée.

We cannot speak of a democratic crisis when the project has been supported, explained and assumed.

(…) We did not hide behind our little finger, there was a democratic process.

The legitimacy of the election against that of the street.

Political time versus social time.

The one to which many of Emmanuel Macron's predecessors ended up giving in.

He wants to hold on.

And all the more firmly that he is convinced that, opposite, no one has played the game of negotiation.

“Is this the project that arrived in Parliament like this?

No.

There were months of consultation.

The truth is that there is no social and political force of opposition which wanted to enter into a compromise and carry another project, ”

assures this same source at the Élysée, where we are angry. especially to the CFDT for having braced itself, in accordance with the conclusions of its congress, against the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years.

"The answer was: nothing,"

chokes a close friend of Emmanuel Macron.

This will not prevent the President of the Republic from meeting them

“in the weeks to come”.

Count with violence,

And if there were only the unions… In this pension crisis, we must now take into account the violence that invites itself into the processions, rarely denounced by the left parties, often stirred up by those of the far left.

A

"democratic threat"

and

"a threat to the Republic",

according to this close friend of the Head of State who denounces, very upset,

"all the political speeches which legitimize violence and which consider that, in the democratic order, in to come to blows or to arms would be legitimate”.

The extreme left, therefore, which is currently embodied in Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

And whose strategy ultimately leads to only one result: to advance the far right.

Source: lefigaro

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