” Inflation, unemployment insurance reform, pensions… The social return will be explosive, warns Release. On the left as in the unions, everyone is certain. “I feel it’s boiling, all the elements are there”, pledge Aurélie Trouvé, rebellious deputy, from the anti-globalization organization Attac. INSEE predicts an inflation peak around 7 % at the start of the school year, enough to inflate the price of school supplies and gasoline. The government’s response ? “He remains braced on an ultra-liberal message. What he did not hear at the ballot box, he will have to be made to understand in the street”, storms the Communist spokesman, Ian Brossat. »
Comment by Release : “ This back to school, it’s nitroglycerin “. Release which is based on a Viavoice poll that ” 68 % of French people anticipate a turbulent return to school, under the sign of large-scale social movements. After a summer of staring at prices, what worries them the most is obviously purchasing power. The legislative package adopted by Parliament at the beginning of the month did not settle the matter, far from it ! », exclaims again Release. ” And talk to the French about the reform of unemployment insurance, that of the RSA, the silence on salaries and the uncertainties concerning the extension of the retirement age… You will see. »
A fragmented political landscape
” Back to school is always announced as “hot”, recalls for his part Le Figaro. This year is no exception to tradition. It is true that the return of inflation, the surge in energy prices, the consequences of the war in Ukraine are causing fears and tensions. But, in addition to this climate, there is an unprecedented context, notes the right-wing daily: a political landscape shattered like never before. The President of the Republic and his government do not have an absolute majority, and therefore total freedom of action. As for the opposition, if it is plural, it is mainly divided between the two extremes, left and right. In these conditions, wonders Le Figaro, Emmanuel Macron will he be able to carry out the reforms he intends to undertake ? Nothing is less certain, the adversity is so strong. »
Macron indecipherable?
What’s more, point The worldthe Head of State is also criticized in his own camp… “ If times are troubled, they make it possible to camouflage the fact that Emmanuel Macron’s course is, too. Since he launched his campaign for his re-election in February, the former economy minister has failed to explain the goal he has set for his new mandate. The disheveled reformer lived ; his friends point to a “lack of strategic projection”, or even get annoyed at a power that “floats”. “This five-year term seems to be progressing semester by semester, through permanent crisis management, explains the former “pen” of the head of state, Sylvain Fort. This caution no doubt demonstrates awareness of the threat posed by exogenous crises, which presupposes not weakening the national. »
Hence this question of Opinion : “ Would the president rely on external risks to minimize his relative internal impotence and justify a form of resignation to the post-legislative deal? ? For those close to him and his supporters, the Head of State remains an enigma that the silence of his holidays and his reinforced loneliness make even more indecipherable and distant. “.
Climate emergency: is something happening?
Also read this time in The cross : the awareness of the French in the face of the extent of global warming… “ It is no longer possible to look away, affirms The cross. Nor to apply it systematically, and a bit disdainfully, only to developing countries. The effects of global warming exploded this summer, before our helpless Western eyes. Beyond the emotion, a backing to the wall. And an awareness that we want to believe, like our collective responsibility. And sustainable. (…) Something is going on, exclaims again The cross, of the order of a paradigm shift, which obliges us all. The time is for action. And the attention paid to the purchasing power of the French at the start of the school year should not overshadow the urgency of decarbonizing our economy. Like this scorching summer, the price to pay would be crushing. »