Lowering the social temperature.
Two weeks after enacting the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron has since multiplied his trips to the country.
And tries to renew the link, distended, with the French.
Again on the ground, in the Doubs and the Jura, this April 27, the President of the Republic knew, as usual, that he was expected to do the pedagogy of the postponement of the legal retirement age. .
But it is on a completely different subject that the head of state was challenged: that of the remuneration of the big bosses.
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What do you think of the salaries of top CEOs?
asks a onlooker in a market between two aisles of clothes.
"It shocks everyone, me too, it shocks me,"
retorts Emmanuel Macron.
"
I consider that when the differences reach these proportions, you can no longer explain it to people
," he insists.
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Asked about the government's room for maneuver, "
in a state of law
", about the amount of these sometimes excessive salaries, the president replied that the state, precisely, opposes it in the companies in which it has shares. .
“We, when we are in the capital, we vote against that.
And besides, the bosses, in the public sector, for years now, have been limited in their remuneration, ”
explains Emmanuel Macron.
Who adds that the public services cannot
“replace the shareholders”,
in General Assembly, in the private sector.
"
It is not the state that can do it, there is everyone's responsibility
", thunders the president, who goes further and targets "
disconnected people
".
Rather unusual remarks for Emmanuel Macron, who was an ardent defender of the “runoff theory” and a fierce supporter of an economy starting from the “first in line”.
So unusual that the left opposition was quick to mock words disconnected from the politics of six years.
“The income of the big bosses?
Macron is “shocked”, but the “State cannot”.
If the state, and its leader, could.
Could no longer issue subsidies to their firms.
Could no longer receive them at the Élysée.
Could a thousand things.
The truth: he does not WANT
, “said Somme deputy François Ruffin.
“
“
So that's why I gave them tax breaks
”
,
then quipped LFI MEP Manin Aubry.
Same story for the boss of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud:
“Gap of remuneration fixed from 1 to 20, taxation of superprofits, return of the ISF More than 5 years that we have made these proposals to the Government … More than 5 years they refuse everything.
If anyone still thinks he's "shocked", it's because Emmanuel Macron deserves a César."