“Admission of weakness”, “failure”, “trousers”, the day after Elisabeth Borne’s activation of 49.3 to approve the pension reform, the French press widely criticized the use of this much deplored constitutional tool. The spontaneous meetings organized at night and the excesses that followed are also widely discussed.
For its part, the international press also echoed the situation in the country, following the example of the New York Timesthat “the pension conflict reveals a weakened and more isolated Macron”.
In one of its editions of the day, the American newspaper uses a snapshot showing rebel deputies brandishing anti-government signs in the National Assembly.
“The Blockade Republic”, title Die Zeit, according to whom “there are reforms for which a government never recovers”. “Confidence in the president and Parliament, already at half mast, suffered an additional blow on Thursday. Emmanuel Macron is the first responsible,” judges the German weekly.
“anger” and “chaos”
Several British media dedicated their headlines to the events of this Thursday. The Guardian evokes “anger” over “Macron’s forced move to pensions”.
A photograph of several deputies present before the National Assembly, including Mathilde Panot and Rachel Kéké, is also used on the front page of the newspaper dated today. “Scenes of chaos occurred in Parliament”, we can also read.
HE daily telegraph He also chose to illustrate his cover with rebel deputies. This time, the chosen shot is that of elected officials brandishing, shortly before Elisabeth Borne’s speech in the National Assembly, signs reading “64 years is no!” They then sang the Marseillaise and then booed the Prime Minister.
“Signs of trouble for Macron and his pension reform”, we can read.
Macron’s unpopularity
In Spain, several general information newspapers also reserve their front pages for the pension reform and the 49.3 used by the executive, which symbolizes “the failure of politics and a deep institutional crisis,” estimates Ana Fuentes in The country.
Here again, a photograph of the rebel deputies in the Palais Bourbon is used to illustrate the crisis.
According to this former correspondent in Paris for the Spanish newspaper, “Macron, whose popularity is at its lowest point, always questioned for his haughty character and disconnected from the street, entered the same phase as his predecessors Alain Juppé, in 1995, and Nicolas Sarkozy , in 2010, when they also reformed pensions”.
For The vanguardthe use of 49.3 to carry out the pension reform “leaves Macron very affected”.
“Strike” and “Defiance”
In Belgium, The night insists on the “coup de force” of the executive. “A decision that provoked the anger of the French who protested throughout the country,” the media from all over Quiévrain report.
In Italy, the Republic decided to use a photograph of the protesters gathered at the Place de la Concorde to illustrate its cover of the day.
“Macron challenges parliament and the street”, it can be read.
Source: BFM TV
