MACRON SPEECH. This Thursday, March 17, Emmanuel Macron presents his program at a press conference from Seine-Saint-Denis. A speech and a question-and-answer session are planned to detail the project of the outgoing president.
The essential
- Emmanuel Macron presents his ambitions and lists the key measures of his program for the 2022 presidential election this Thursday March 17 in a major press conference.
- The outgoing president and official candidate for re-election since March 3 has already distilled some important measures from his program: the postponement of the legal retirement age to 65, the abolition of the audiovisual license fee or the allocation of 15 billion additional euros in five years at the Ministry of Defence. These and other measures must be specified during Emmanuel Macron’s speech.
- After a speech of almost an hour, the candidate Macron will answer questions from journalists present at the press conference on his program.
- Follow Emmanuel Macron’s speech live on his program on video below; the key proposals can be found in our news feed.
Live
16:00 – Support for single-parent families and women’s health to achieve gender equality
Gender equality will continue to be a central subject assures the candidate. To get closer and achieve this goal, he says he wants to work on supporting single-parent families, which are overwhelmingly women, and support and better care for women’s health. He cites as an example the project launched to lift the taboo and make up for the medical delay taken by the medical world on endometriosis, a female disease which affects one in ten women.
15:55 – Macron intends to extend his action for the protection of children
The second series of ambitions presented by Emmanuel Macron tends to work towards a more united society by defending access to the same opportunities for all and preventing inequalities. Child protection is the first point of this united society for which the candidate proposes parental control of default screens to protect children against new digital uses and the fight against bullying at school and cyberbullying. The candidate also wishes to promote the inclusion of children with disabilities, so he intends to increase the working time of AESH and those accompanying children with disabilities to 35 hours.
15:51 – Retirement at 65 but “taking into account the specifics”
“We also have to work longer, an aging society so it is normal that we work more.” Emmanuel Macron defends the gradual shift in the retirement age to 65 years with while taking “into account long careers” and the “reality of jobs and tasks”. “We will simplify and develop the mechanisms of combining employment and retirement by allowing you to benefit from retirement while continuing to contribute to and benefit from the rights of your contribution”, he adds.
15:48 – “Work more” and aim for full employment
Emmanuel Macron puts on the table the objective of “working more” which includes two plans: full employment and pension reform. To achieve full employment, he evokes the transformation of the employment center into “France travail” to, at the scale of the territory, pool all skills and support more easily those who must return to employment. It is also a question of the reform of the RSA which suggests the obligation to devote several hours per week to an activity which facilitates reintegration into the world of work. Emmanuel Macron reaffirms and assures that he did not wish to introduce the RSA for young people aged 18-25.
15:41 – Betting on the energy renovation of “700,000 homes per year”
For the climate and energy transition, Emmanuel Macron wants to renovate “at least 700,000 homes per year” to significantly reduce energy consumption. “We will develop an affordable offer of electric vehicles,” he adds.
15:38 – On the independence of information
Emmanuel Macron expands on cultural and informational independence. “I want to protect free information against interference, France to take several initiatives in this regard, we will launch states general in France and in Europe for the right to information which will have to establish the elements which will make it possible to defend the conditions of practice in France and in Europe.”
15:33 – Macron bets on the nuclear mix – renewable for energy independence
“On energy independence, we can be the first major nation to emerge from gas, oil and coal independence.” Nuclear and renewable energy is the only mix that makes it possible to achieve the objectives set according to Emmanuel Macron, so he specifies that six EPR nuclear reactors will be built, that solar power will be multiplied by 10 and that 500 marine and onshore wind farms will be deployed.
15:28 – Promoting “the installation of young farmers”
“We must work on the demographic transition in the agricultural sector. […] We need to have a law that will help the installation of young farmers and it must be accompanied by our protein plan, launched in 2017, which is key for our European food sovereignty and a strengthening of our investment to produce more.
15:25 – Achieving “French agricultural, industrial and creative independence”
“Second element of an independent nation: invest massively for French agricultural, industrial and creative independence.”
15:23 – Proposals on the army
To better defend ourselves against crises, we must remobilize and increase the army’s resources, so “we must reinvest in cutting-edge technology and succeed in gaining adaptability”. The army budget will continue to grow as it has for five years.
15:18 – The wish for a more independent France
“Making France a more independent nation is a conviction which was reinforced during the health crisis” and which still believes in the face of the problems caused by the war in Ukraine.
15:14 – “In five years the action has been there”
“I promised to lower unemployment, despite the crises, we did it. I made a commitment to lower taxes, despite the crises, we did it. I said that we will reduce our gas emissions. greenhouse effects, we have it twice as fast as expected. In five years the action has been there. If the French make me aware, what I am going to present to you will be implemented”, promises the candidate.
3:12 p.m. – Emmanuel Macron refuses “withdrawal” policies
“Our societies have to experience the return of crises, the return of war on our continent, including crises that we have not yet experienced. And we have to experience at the same time transformations such as the energy transition and the demographic transition. This new era, how do we want to approach it? Some projects offer withdrawal, I believe the opposite. I think that in the face of rising fears, we must respond with a lucid ambition, a desire for commitment and an ability to knowing how to better protect ourselves, project ourselves and prepare our future because we have resources.”
15:08 – On the Macron program “cannot be exhaustive”
“Even if I will try to be as complete as possible, I will not be able to be exhaustive. I will not be able to present all the projects today”, declares Emmanuel Macron from the outset. For example, projects concerning the overseas territories will be the subject of forthcoming speeches.
It is a lightning presidential campaign that Emmanuel Macron lives. After the formalization of his candidacy in a letter to the French published on the evening of March 3 in the regional press titles, the contender for a second term at the Elysee Palace decided to present his program at a press conference on Thursday. March 17. Emmanuel Macron’s campaign team has announced a meeting of nearly three hours or more, which will start at 3 p.m. with a long introductory remark by Emmanuel Macron. Will follow the traditional questions of the press to the candidate on the entirety of its program. Emmanuel Macron chose to go to the Docks de Paris, in Aubervilliers in Seine-Saint-Denis, to present his entire presidential project.
Without having published an official program, the candidate Macron has already given the course he would like to follow if he is elected for a second term at the Elysée. During his first campaign trip to Poissy on March 7, the candidate of La République en Marche mentioned the four pacts on which he intends to act: a European pact, a pact between generations, a productive pact and a republican pact. He also announced some measures, some of which had already been announced, and sometimes promised, in 2017, such as pension reform. The candidate and his campaign team have confirmed their desire to push back the retirement age to 65, against 62 today, as well as the abolition of all special schemes. A project defended body and soul because “given the fact that we live longer and longer, and that’s good, we must shift the legal age and pass it 65 years”, explained Emmanuel Macron on TF1 on Monday 14 March.
In his letter to the French, Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to give priority “to the school and to our teachers” for the next five years to restore “republican meritocracy”. The purchasing power of the French also promises to be a significant part of Emmanuel Macron’s program because the subject is the primary concern of voters after two years of health crisis, on this point he notably promised not to increase taxes. . Health, energy transition and security are also key issues in the campaign on which the candidate must express himself.