In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon goes into the (very) technical details of the procedure to repeal the pension reform with Erwan Bruckert, journalist in the Political Department of L’Express.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Charlotte Baris (writing), Ambre Rosala (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
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Xavier Yvon: Since 2017, and the arrival of Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace, you may have discovered a whole host of somewhat forgotten words, such as “croquignolesque” or “perlimpinpin powder”… The President of the Republic is fond of outdated expressions, and does not hold back from using them in speeches, debates, or interviews
Emmanuel Macron: “You shouldn’t talk nonsense to our fellow citizens either…” “We can decide to laugh at all that from the front…” “It’s not Gérard Majax, tonight!”
Xavier Yvon: And these days, he must be thinking very hard about one of these formulas: “Captain Haddock’s band-aid”… If you don’t know it, I’ll take a moment to explain it to you…
It comes from a sheet of a Tintin album, more precisely from The Calculus Affair… We see the old sailor taking off a bandage from his nose, then shaking his hand to get rid of the adhesive plaster which sticks to his fingers… Haddock gets annoyed and swears “Thunder! A thousand ports!”… Until until the adhesive flies off, sticks to a neighbour’s hat, then to a neighbour’s hands… before returning to the captain’s cap…
The idea has entered common parlance to designate something that we cannot get rid of… And to come back to Emmanuel Macron, his “band-aid” is pension reform.
With the promulgation of the law, the president thought he was definitely done with this dossier, after months of protest in the streets and in the Assembly… This was without counting on certain deputies, who, in a few days, will try to repeal the reform… Again, in the camp of the majority, the spirits smoke while we are looking for the right strategy so that the subject no longer sticks to their skin…
For further
PODCAST. Pension reform: today’s failure and tomorrow’s headache
PODCAST. Pension reform: will violence and the calendar be a game-changer?
PODCAST. How Emmanuel Macron wants to relaunch his five-year term after the pension reform
Pensions: what if article 40 of the Constitution neutralized the Liot proposal?
Pensions: the week when Emmanuel Macron made his majority bubble
Pension reform, Macron faced with the extent of the damage: “Can we think for a second?”
Pension reform: Emmanuel Macron, the president who refused to doubt