A year after his re-election, Emmanuel Macron seems more than ever cut off from the French. Three out of four also say they are “dissatisfied” with the Head of State, according to an Ifop poll for the Sunday newspaper. An unpopularity intrinsically linked to the promulgation of the pension reform. Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1 / CNews / Les Échos, the editorialist and writer Franz-Olivier Giesbert returned to the pension reform. For him, “this reform is ridiculous, it will bring nothing, at most 10 billion euros. It’s just a reform for the financial markets”, he underlined.
“He couldn’t stay like that, completely absent”
For Franz-Olivier Giesbert, this reform was made “to avoid a financial crisis, because that’s what hangs in the face of France when you look at the figures. France is practically a quarter of the debt of the Economic and Monetary Union of the euro zone. It’s huge”, assures the editorialist. “We are in a very complicated situation.”
As for the dissatisfaction of the French and the trade unions, Franz-Olivier Giesbert considers that it is “because the reform is not explained. First of all, it [Emmanuel Macron, ndlr] was for retirement on points. Afterwards, he changes, it’s the ‘at the same time'”, castigates the editorialist who considers that the president could “have the reform explained” by others. “Bruno Le Maire and Gabriel Attal could very well have done it for example, then Emmanuel Macron would have arrived behind. But he couldn’t stay like that, completely absent,” insists Franz-Olivier Giesbert.
“He gave everything to Elisabeth Borne, who is obviously not made for that, she is a good technician but it is not a policy at all. And you need politicians in difficult times like France is experiencing today. today”, concludes Franz-Olivier Giesbert.