While the government is preparing the pension reform, the Head of State insisted, during his wishes to the French, on the need to “work more” to deal with crises.
By Matthew Goar
Behind the call to the unity of the nation, antidote supposedly faced with the upheavals of the time, a word punctuated the wishes of Emmanuel Macron, Saturday December 31, 2022. Seventeen times, the president of the Republic used the term “work” or its declination “work”. “We must work more,” insisted the head of state when they congratulate himself on the unemployment insurance reform or to recall the absolute necessity, according to him, of the pension reform. A lexical field declined in multiple ways, with a leitmotif: France will be transformed “by our work and our commitment”. Eight times, Mr. Macron used this expression to list his ambitions: “Refound a stronger France”, “Recondy public services”, “build a fairer society”, reindustrialize the country, “increase the means of the forces of Interior security “… According to the Elysée, the success of this second five -year period will be determined by the question of work.
This rhetoric was not chosen at random. Omnipresent during the presidential campaign, she returned to the macronist expression since the fall of 2022, after a summer devoted to purchasing power. “I believe in a France of work and merit,” said Macron, on October 26, during a program broadcast on France 2. While many parliamentarians of the majority were wondering in September about the meaning To give to his second mandate and worried about the presidential vagueness, the work value appeared as a possible axis.
During several meetings of the majority in the National Assembly, but also around the secretary general of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler, the macronist officials agreed to make it the arc of a second five -year period who is still looking for His rhythm and story. The objective is to try to create a link between the different reforms in progress or to come (unemployment insurance, pensions, reform of the vocational high school, etc.). With an ambition: full employment, that is to say less than 5 % unemployment.
“For France to be able to become an industrial power again, it is through work that we will get out collectively, translates Charles Rodwell, deputy (Renaissance) of Yvelines. This creates an arc between the Reforms but also with the first five -year term, where we created 1.3 million jobs, where we have lowered wage and employer expenses, where we reformed learning. There is coherence and it is really The identity of Emmanuel Macron from the start. Without forgetting that there is a real ideological divergence between the Nuts [new popular, ecological and social union] and us on this subject. “
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