Jacques Serais, edited by Laura Laplaud / Photo credit: LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP
How will Emmanuel Macron be received this Thursday during his trip to Hérault? On Wednesday, the head of state was booed during his first walkabout in Alsace post-promulgation of the pension reform. The President gives himself 100 days to appease the country but for that, it is necessary to confront the ground.
After Bas-Rhin on Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron is going to the Hérault department this Thursday. Second trip in two days, this time to talk about education and rurality. He will also be accompanied by the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye to discuss with teachers, parents and students of the Louise Michel college in the commune of Ganges. Going into contact, being on the ground, is it the current method of the President of the Republic to try to turn the page on pension reform?
Emmanuel Macron calls for the mobilization of his ministers
Emmanuel Macron’s strategy is assumed. He insisted on this point Wednesday in the Council of Ministers at the Elysée: “All on deck!”, He told them. With an instruction formulated in two words: “acceleration and calm”. The members of the government have been given the task of deploying themselves in the field and in the media, and he himself applies this rule when he knows that he is eagerly awaited by opponents of his reform.
“We will welcome him as he should”
“We voluntarily throw ourselves into the mouth of the wolf”, explains an adviser to the President of the Republic. “We will welcome it as it should”, warns in advance the CGT of Hérault which will be able to count on part of the 4,000 inhabitants of Ganges, a commune led by a mayor who is a member of the radical left party.
And even if the sounds of saucepans or whistles pierce the walls of the Louise Michel college, Emmanuel Macron is determined to carry out his program. He must exchange for a little over an hour at midday with teachers, parents and students. It should also make announcements on teacher compensation. But it is not sure that this is enough to bring down the temperature.