The countdown has begun for the vote on the pension reform project in France. If the text has, of course, been voted by the Senate, a perspective is emerging, that of the passage in force.
” 49-3 “, launches in One The Sunday newspaper, with reference to article 49, paragraph 3 of the Constitution. Which allows a vote of a block text without debate. Timeline obliges, only five days remain to have this reform adopted, and the number of deputies threatens to be insufficient. ” At the last counter, we are ten votes short to the National Assembly, confided a minister, the day before yesterday, to JDD. According to this weekly, 24 LR deputies will not vote for the reform ” And ” THE 49-3 is inevitable », says « a connoisseur of the right ” At Sunday newspaper.
” Let the end of the story be a 49-3 seems incredible and dangerous to me », is terrified Laurent Berger in The JDD. The secretary general of the CFDT union denounces ” an incredible arm of honor “made by Emmanuel Macron” to social democracy “.
In this same newspaper, the secretary general of Renaissance, the party of Emmanuel Macron, affirms that he is ” not in favor of 49-3 on this text “. Stéphane Séjourné, however, assures him, ” no voice will be missing within the Renaissance group “.
Macron, the African memoirist
For Emmanuel Macron, in any case, the weeks that follow are alike. The following therefore promises to be tense. The previous one, in Central Africa, was hardly easy.
And in the columns of the weekly Point, the Head of State draws lessons from this. Starting point of her reasoning, the war in Libya, in 2011. According to Emmanuel Macron, she marked “ a breaking point in recent history, from which Russia and the non-aligned countries have made their honey (because, he said) for the first time during this war, the Western world duplicated in Africa what the Americans had implemented in Iraq, in the Near and Middle East: overstepping the limits of international law to wage a war and change a ruler for its own security interests. An event that comes just as China enters the international order, sparking the awakening of the BRICS “(which bring together Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), estimates the French president in Point.
Macron, the Pan-Africanist
And then… And then Emmanuel Macron, but yes, salute Pan-Africanism! ” Africa is living a political moment around Pan-Africanism, he admits in this casual interview. We sometimes think that relationships were simpler before, that’s not true! We must remember Thomas Sankara clearly opposing France and François Mitterrand during his trip to Burkina Faso in 1986 “says Emmanuel Macron.
Françafrique? According to the president, his predecessors Nicolas Sarkozy like François Hollande ” also sought to get out of this system (…) Maybe Africa mattered less to them than it matters to me today, he confides to this weekly. I am convinced that Africa has become one of the matrices of French society. (…) Our diasporas will have a key role to play in reconciliation “, he anticipates.
Macron, the African universalist
The French president also returns to the feeling of ” Two weights, two measures prevailing in Africa about the war in Ukraine.
” African countries (…) say that we have equipped Ukraine with the best weapons, that we have financed it, which is not the case when they are attacked by foreigners or rebel groups », confesses Emmanuel Macron in this interview. However, he hastens to add, this cannot be a pretext for not being involved in the Ukrainian question, because it has a universal aspect. I am the first to consider that there should not be two weights, two measures and that solidarity should not be exercised in variable geometry. This is why my trip to the DRC also aimed to remobilize international attention to the Great Lakes crisis, starting with its humanitarian consequences. “, says the head of state in the magazine Point.
THE ” at the same time Macron’s African
Exactly. In Kinshasa, Africans, dumbfounded, witnessed this incident in the middle of a press briefing with Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi.
But not only… The weekly Marianne Also. ” We are therefore angry with the most important French-speaking country in Africa, deplore this magazine. It’s curious, this need, in Emmanuel Macron, to teach a lesson. To come and explain to his counterpart in the Democratic Republic of Congo, plagued by incursions by militias who are committing (…) atrocious crimes and mass massacres, with the benevolent support of neighboring Rwanda, which “Since 1994, it’s not France’s fault, if you [les Congolais] have never been able to restore the military, security or administrative sovereignty of your country” “.
Of course, admit Marianne“ it’s not France’s fault “. However, explains this weekly, it is undoubtedly so as not to offend Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda supported by the United States and provider of this cobalt, this coltan and this tantalum which he does not have on his territory but which one finds in eastern Congo (…) that Emmanuel Macron was so evasive about those responsible for the massacres. He preferred to maintain the outrageous qualifier of Jean-Yves Le Drian on the election of the Congolese president: “African compromise”. What do you mean, the Congolese took it badly? How amazing! “, quips Marianne.