The Head of State, despite a complex political situation, has not sold anything on his reform projects, notably concerning pensions and work. And announced an energy sobriety plan.
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Emmanuel Macron has long found the exercise too agreed and too restrictive to unroll the thread of his “complex thought”. But at a time when the authority of the President of the Republic is undermined, restricted by the relative majority of the presidential camp in the National Assembly, the solemn of the television interview of July 14 suddenly resumed meaning in the eyes From a head of state that his contemptors say tired and lacking in inspiration. Thursday, shortly after 1 p.m., once the military parade is completed, Emmanuel Macron therefore folded to tradition, by answering questions, in the Elysée gardens, TF1 journalists, Anne-Claire Coudray and France 2, Caroline Roux.
“It touches me that we are worried about me,” said the head of state during the exchange to better dismantle the suspicions of weakness suggested by the opposition. Pugnacious, resolutely confident in his ability to carry out his project despite the obstacles that accumulate on his way, Emmanuel Macron tried in just one hour, to clarify his course for the next five years, anxious to leave a “Trace in history” without however claiming to “write [this] story before doing it.”
At the end, the one who, in December 2021, claimed to have “learned” from his first mandate, regretting certain awkwardness, seems today to fully assume his character, resolutely liberal on the economic level and above the fray . Admittedly, “Jupiter” is no longer. “I have never claimed this mythological comparison but if some had wanted to see me as such. It is more Vulcan, that is to say for the forge,” he explains. But the head of state does not regret anything. Especially not his point, made in 2018, in front of a young horticulturalist assuring that it was enough for him to cross the street to find work. “It’s a truth,” he said.
The work will, in fact, be one of the cardinal values of this second five-year period with the objective of full employment, namely, an unemployment rate at 5 %. At a time when inflation, partly linked to the conflict in Ukraine, devours the household budget, Emmanuel Macron sees in “work and wages”, the best answer to this question of purchasing power. On wages, it will above all come back to companies to make an effort. On work “there is no fatality”, he explained, reiterating the idea at the start of the school year of unemployment insurance, evoking a “work” reform, and the Idea of an active solidarity income (RSA) which would be accompanied by devices aimed at encouraging the return to employment more firmly.
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