French President Emmanuel Macron visited Charente-Maritime this Thursday, May 4, at the Bernard-Palissy technical school in Saintes, with the aim of launching a reform of vocational schools. His strategy is always the same: try to show that he is in action and that his five-year term is not blocked despite the dispute over the pension reform which continues.
With our special correspondent in Saintes,
A ” national cause ». The stage is set. For Emmanuel Macron, it is necessary to turn the pensions page. And the reform of the vocational school is, to hear it, a new priority that deserves resources. Moreover, the State will support allowances for trainees and release an additional billion per year. A promise that a pupil of the Bernard-Palissy high school has of course heard:
To the question “how you finance the billion euros? “, Emmanuel Macron answers:” We save money on other things. The big savings for the next few years will be on the pension system. (…) The money that the State puts to fill the deficit of the system will be put rather to invest on the future. »
And in the future, Emmanuel Macron intends to revalue this school sector to help fight against what he has often called the ” house arrest “. ” Our duty is to allow young people, precisely perhaps because they come from a city which is in more difficulty, from a family in more difficulty, to make up for this “, did he declare.
From the vocational high school, Emmanuel Macron arrives at the territorial divide: “ The role of the nation is also to make it possible to have a profession in the local high school that leads very far. What we are building is a real response to the fracture of territories and destinies in which some would like to confine us. Because it is not a reality. So it’s up to us to play. »
A proactive and social discourse to try not to get stuck on pensions. But in Saintes, once again, demonstrators were waiting for Emmanuel Macron with saucepans.
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