The Head of State began visiting the largest fresh product market in the world on Tuesday around 5:30 a.m., a first outing in contact with citizens since the launch of the pension reform. Before a long stroll announced at the Agricultural Show, Saturday.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
It is at dawn that the President of the Republic comes out. For his first outing in direct contact with the French since the launch of the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron arrived in Rungis (Val-de-Marne) Tuesday, February 21 at 5:30 am, accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, and the minister delegated to SMEs, Olivia Grégoire.
Between the stalls of wholesalers in poultry, tingling or cutting professionals where he is expected, the head of state could respond to arrests on his pension reform. This flagship project of its second five-year term which provides for a postponement from 62 to 64 years of the legal departure age arouses hostility in the street as in Parliament.
Since the launch of the reform, Emmanuel Macron has hardly exposed himself, apart from a few trips abroad, during which he delivered sober and laconic messages on this text, or during very framed meetings.
In the first hour of his visit, the president said he recovered “in the common sense of the French” and maintained that it is necessary to “work a little longer”.
the value work
This trip to the south of Paris, with “professionals who work at dawn” is also an opportunity to put at the center of his communication the value “work”, described as a common thread of his action.
The wink is clear to “France which rises early”, Leitmotif by Nicolas Sarkozy during his victorious presidential campaign of 2007, also taken up since the far right.
The presidential camp took it by the voice of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to justify the effort requested from the French to balance the pension system. “Yes, you have to get up early to go to work,” he said at the end of January.