Emmanuel Macron will make a televised “speech” on Monday evening, the Elysée announced on Saturday, just after the promulgation of the pension reform, still highly contested.
“The President will address the French during a speech on Monday evening,” said the Elysée, without specifying a schedule. The announcement of the express promulgation of the text of the law, just after its validation by the Constitutional Council, seized unions and oppositions on Saturday and showed the president’s desire to quickly relaunch his second five-year term hampered by the social and political crisis.
All the unions have expressed their “determination” to continue the fight against the lowering of the legal age to 64, starting by declining an invitation to the Elysee Palace officially received at a time when the law was initialed by Emmanuel Macron.
This ultra-fast publication, while the inter-union united for three months of protest had asked the president “solemnly” to “not promulgate the law”, is “shameful”, denounced the general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet. “From the beginning, the contempt returned to the workers will have been constant. But their dignity in the street is stronger, ”reacted his counterpart at the CFDT Laurent Berger. “Wanting to go fast, it looks like provocation,” added Frédéric Souillot of FO.
The Head of State will bring together the executives of the majority on Monday at the Élysée but reconnecting with the unions will not be easy. “There will be resentment, scars”, slips a relative.
