In the event of a “big crisis”, the head of state can always trust the voters: Emmanuel Macron, in the midst of social anger against his pension reform, answered questions from young readers of big nosesecuring their frustration when things don’t go “fast enough”.
The president’s speech has been rare since the presentation, on January 10, of the flagship project for his second five-year period. But he agreed to speak for the famous dog’s 75th birthday during an interview conducted on February 20 with young readers and aired on Wednesday.
“Arrest”
His words have a particular resonance in the flammable situation that the country has been experiencing since the outbreak, on March 16, of 49.3 for the approval of the pension reform.
“Can you leave your position completely and what would happen if you left?” asks Mélina, a fourth grade student, during a meeting at the Elysée.
“If you leave it, it means that there could be a big crisis and you are warned”, responds Emmanuel Macron. “At that point, you hand over your mandate to the French and people vote again.”
“Having your own idea of things”
At the moment, the Head of State is not contemplating a referendum on pensions or the dissolution of the National Assembly and a resignation seems even more unlikely. Pressed to give advice to whoever wanted to become president, Emmanuel Macron insists:
“The best way to do this is to make a decision and not rely on other people’s parts.”
Emmanuel Macron does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly. And the pension reform crystallizes the discontent around him. What do you like about his “job”?
“The exchange, the meeting, trying to understand what works and what doesn’t work in the great elections that I implement.”
“The moments that touch you”
His detractors highlight his inflexibility in terms of pensions, accusing him of “playing rot” on the situation. Or “you were able to provide solutions” and it is “satisfactory”, launches Emmanuel Macron.
“Or it’s not, and it’s the moments that touch you too, the ones that are frustrating because you see that things aren’t moving fast enough.”
In the relationship between a president and the French there can be “anger”, “joy”, “but there is no indifference”, he continues outlining. El Pif, emblematic character of the youth press, was created in 1948 by the Spanish cartoonist José Cabrero Arnal for the communist newspaper Humanity.
Magazine Gadget Pip was founded in 1969, under the aegis of the Communist Party, before disappearing in 1993. After two initial resurrections, it was relaunched in 2020, under the name of big noseheaded by the ex-minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, Frédéric Lefebvre.
Source: BFM TV
