More than a million demonstrators in total, according to the Ministry of the Interior, 3.5 million according to the CGT union, the ninth day of mobilization against the pension reform has largely filled up in more than 300 cities in France. ” The Republic en masse “, launches in One Release. ” Far from running out of steam, the protests seem to be attracting a new audience, including many young people. But their anger is no longer directed solely against this reform, which they consider unfair: it is the President of the Republic who is the target of slogans and placards », indeed points Releasehighlighting ” the aversion that the personality of Emmanuel Macron inspires in the demonstrators “.
According to this daily, the intervention of the Head of State on television “ worsened the social climate, with its dubious comparisons and bellicose assertions. Arrogance, smugness, contempt, the demonstrators put different words to their feelings, but the result is the same: Macron has become an upside-down Demosthenes, a speaker who galvanizes the crowd and pushes them to do the opposite of what he asked “, estimatedFreed.
The decidedly refractory Gauls
The end of the processions having been punctuated by urban violence until late at night, the least that can be said is that on television, Emmanuel Macron did not convince the French, who seem to be resigned to the violence to come.
According to an Odoxa survey published by Le Figaro, no less than 3 out of four French people (76% to be more precise) were not convinced by Emmanuel Macron. This is five points more than the same measurement taken by another survey, carried out on the spot by the Elabe Institute for the BFMTV television channel after the television intervention of the Head of State.
Even more worrying, in fact, the Figaro poll indicates that 83% of French people expect the violence and excesses to worsen in the days to come, but 70% of them consider the government guilty of having caused this situation. Don’t throw any more!
Splendid isolation
Result, Emmanuel Macron now seems more isolated than ever “, admits Le Figarohe must “ jointly resolve a social crisis which is taking hold and hardening and a political crisis which is disarming it. The problem is that the first pushes concessions to union forces […] while the second can only be resolved by the composition of a majority “, remarks this newspaper. Which emphasizes that such a composition “ requires convincing a sufficient number of deputies from the right “. Only here, complete Le Figaro“ every initiative in one direction must immediately be counterbalanced in the opposite direction: this is perpetual immobility. THE “at the same time” was not a martingale, but a trap. It closes before our eyes “.
So ! So you can imagine how this real political squeeze deciphered by a conservative daily such as Le Figaro and in which the president finds himself, is perceived by a newspaper such as Humanity. For the communist daily, it’s simple, “ Emmanuel Macron’s words came back to him like a boomerang. On Wednesday, he was lecturing […] on the tendency of our democracy “to want to abstract itself from reality (Now he) should, at least, have the lucidity to apply its own analyses. There “reality”he’s the one who doesn’t want to see her “. And The Human to emphasize the contrast striking between, on the one hand, union unity and public opinion, on the other, “ an isolated Emmanuel Macron […] Dreaming of a decay of movement […] After barely a year in office, the head of state already seems to be at the end of his reign “, estimated Humanity.
Penholder’s Strike at Echoes
Another strike, in the press this time, a signature strike on the economic daily The echoes. This Friday’s edition is certainly on newsstands, but the colleagues of echoes decided not to add their signature to the bottom of their articles in order to affirm their ” determination to uphold the independence of their newspaper, after the announcement of the departure of the editorial director, the society of journalists of the echoes speaking ” eviction » by Nicolas Barré Echoes.