The question is on everyone’s lips: what will Emmanuel Macron say to the French later at 1 p.m.? The assumptions are going well. Already, we know what he’s not going to say, tip Le Figaro. ” Pressed from all sides to find a way out of the social and political crisis caused by his pension reform, the president multiplied the meetings yesterday. With his ministers and the leaders of his majority in the morning, with the presidents of the Assembly and the Senate for lunch, with the deputies and senators of his camp in the evening. After seeing his government narrowly escape censorship on Monday, by nine votes, he assured, relief Le Figaro, that he excluded from using each of the scenarios mentioned to get out of the crisis: neither dissolution, nor reorganization, nor referendum. The Head of State asked his troops to make “within two to three weeks maximum” “proposals” for a “change of method and reform agenda”. »
Unlock the quinquennium!
We are far from the mark, exclaims Release. ” Emmanuel Macron would be wrong to consider that the worst is behind him now that the reform has been adopted. (…) The best thing would be for him to admit his mistake, but that is unlikely. So what ? What to say to French people who no longer believe in it? two themes, estimated Liberation, can allow him to try to save this second five-year term that got off to such a bad start: the environment and public services, two extremely urgent projects whose degradation and importance we document on a daily basis and which will determine our future living conditions. Emmanuel Macron must show and prove, still affirms Libé, that he is not driven solely by financial logic and the roadmap of the right. »
What can Emmanuel Macron say? For The ParisianHe must ” let go a little ” For ” unlock the five-year term “: ” perhaps the good idea, for the president, is to do… less, says the newspaper. Since voting on laws is becoming even more complicated, turn instead to the social partners to make progress on the employment of seniors or the universal time savings account (…). But also letting go of each mayor, granting leeway to teachers in each school to improve education, giving flexibility to each hospital director to overcome the crisis in the health system with “his” doctors… This is probably not in the temperament of Emmanuel Macron either. But, still esteem Le Parisien, it would be in line with the original promises of macronism: “liberate energies”, rely on civil society, promote initiative. And refuse the sclerosis of the country. »
Wasted effort ?
For Free Charentethis interview will not calm the spirits… “ What is revealing of this discrepancy between the presidential vision and the way in which the country is shaken is to see how much his opponents expect nothing from the interview with Emmanuel Macron. As he has already announced, he will yield nothing: no reshuffle, dissolution and even less a referendum. As for the National Assembly, for lack of an absolute majority, it will do without. He asked for reform with fewer laws and more regulations. Because he made the choice to move on to something else as quickly as possible. Like nothing ever happened. »
Finally The Latest News from Alsace add: “ Impermeable to the popular rebellion which is becoming radicalized, foreign to the socio-economic anguish of his fellow citizens, the Head of State chooses the status quo at a time when the country needs prospects, security and oxygen. (…) After the truncheon, Emmanuel Macron will seek to divide public opinion, exclaims the Alsatian daily again. His speech this Wednesday aims to consolidate the retired electorate who are still won over to him and to reassure peripheral and hard-working France who are apprehensive as much about his reform as the mess. A strategy as uncertain as it is dangerous, conclude The DNA, far from his last campaign slogan: “all of us”. »