NARRATIVE – On the eve of the first day of mobilization, the Head of State insisted on the legitimacy of the mandate received in the spring and made the financial balance of the system the condition for the relaunch of the country.
How many people in the streets? How many strikers? On the eve of the first day of mobilization against the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron does not want to play the barometers. To the shock of the street, he opposes the legitimacy of the ballot box. And the clarity of the mandate received.
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The left-wing parties and the unions, crossing in this case the border which theoretically separates them from political engagement, chant that the president was re-elected only to block Marine Le Pen. The arrow annoys him and the occupant of the Élysée recalls that, from De Gaulle to him, all the winners of the presidential election have won in part by rejection from their opponent and that this has never prevented them from having the right and even the duty to implement their first-round program. In terms of pensions, Chirac had not been elected in 1995 by promising to reform them, any more than Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010, who nevertheless did well in his eyes to go all the way despite the processions…
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