Thousands of French were still in the streets this Tuesday night against the approval of the pension reform through the use of article 49.3. At the same time, in front of parliamentarians from his camp, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, considered that it was necessary to “appease” and “listen to anger”… while affirming that “the crowd” had no “legitimacy” . before “the people who express themselves through their elected representatives.”
Observations, there are less than 48 hours left for a new day of strike at the initiative of the unions, which angered many opposition deputies.
“He doesn’t listen and persists. Constantly adding fuel to the fire. Let him deal with it now!” writes on Twitter the rebel deputy Antoine Léaument, who brings his “support to the protesters whose legitimacy is total”.
“Don’t insult the French people with every challenge intervention”
For Manuel Bompard, LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, Emmanuel Macron acts like “a kind of madman locked up in the Élysée castle who does not want to listen to anyone” with the pension reform.
“In the Élysée there is a pyrotechnician who walks over the barrels of gunpowder with a torch”, reacts for his part the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure.
“The people who express themselves through their elected representatives are the ones who chose you as a bulwark against the extreme right, the ones who did not give you a mandate for this reform, the ones who did not give you a majority in the “National Assembly”, also recalls Rémi Cardon , socialist senator.
A large majority of the population, including Emmanuel Macron’s voters in the second round of the presidential elections, say they are against the pension reform, according to the latest Elabe polls for BFMTV. “Don’t insult the French people with every defiant speech,” ironically Louis Boyard, LFI deputy for Val-de-Marne.
“Remember this scam”
“We know from the social contract of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that sovereignty cannot be delegated. Elected officials do not own it. The people who demonstrate must be heard and respected. Let Macron start by not calling it a ‘crowd'”, Clementine Autain writes for her part.
On the right and extreme right, few parliamentarians had reacted to Emmanuel Macron’s statements in the evening. “How many voted for Macron to block? How many voted against and not in favor of Macron? Remember this scam well in the next elections ”, however she put on her Twitter account the RN MEP Virginie Joron.
The President of the Republic will speak again this Wednesday, at 1:00 p.m., during a television interview that will be broadcast on BFMTV. According to our information, Emmanuel Macron has excluded in the short term a dissolution of the National Assembly, a reshuffle of the government or a referendum.
Source: BFM TV
