Jacques Serais / Credits: Daniel Cole / POOL / AFP
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11:32 a.m., April 21, 2023
Bas-Rhin on Wednesday and Hérault on Thursday … Emmanuel Macron made a series of trips this week, shortly after the enactment of the pension reform. On the offensive, the head of state wants to give the image of a president in contact, and show that the demonstrators will not prevent him from carrying out his program.
Both in words and in image, Emmanuel Macron is indeed on the offensive after the enactment of the pension reform. The Head of State has made a series of trips this week, with a first hectic in Alsace on Wednesday and a second this Thursday in Hérault where he notably made a surprise visit at the end of the afternoon to the town of Pérols, near Montpelier. Round table outside in a playground in Ganges, glass on the improvised terrace in Pérols… The Head of State wants to show that the demonstrators will not prevent him from carrying out his program. “We have no time to waste,” he slipped, taking selfies.
Macron “not responsible for the interviews” of Borne
And the president does not go overboard to condemn the power cut in the school orchestrated by the CGT. “We must separate disagreement from incivility,” he said. It was then that the head of state almost came to put the political sequence of the moment into perspective. “I have already experienced these fluctuations,” he analyzed, as if he was firmly convinced that his opponents will eventually move on.
Moreover, Emmanuel Macron does not rule out the idea that his government can once again operate a 49.3. If Elisabeth Borne has announced that she no longer wishes to use it outside of the budgetary texts, he assumes. “I am not responsible for the interviews of the Prime Minister”, says the president off the microphone.