2023-04-19 22:54:54
Emmanuel Macron gets out of his car, advances with an alert step and mechanically greets the small crowd gathered in front of the town hall of Sélestat (Bas-Rhin). Boos cover the few applause and chants are heard: “Macron resignation”, “We are here, we are here”… The President of the Republic walks towards a small group of officials, then towards French people gathered behind the metal barriers, “within slaps” therefore, according to the expression used by his relatives. A man challenges him on his “corrupt government” and promises him that he will “soon to fall from above”. A woman tells him of her concern and he “ask for a sign of appeasement”. Another believes that France is no longer a democracy. Macron does not dodge. “I don’t ask people to make tough decisions for me. If you need to know who went to the elections with a clear project, he is in front of youhe replies. It does not please anyone to work longer but if there is not someone to say so…” The Head of State enters the town hall and entrusts, imperturbable: “I have known much worse, the “yellow vests”, it was…”.
For his first trip since the promulgation of the eruptive law on pensions, Wednesday April 19 in the Bas-Rhin, before a visit to Hérault, Thursday April 20, the President of the Republic was pursued by the social context at each of its stages. In Muttersholtz (Bas-Rhin), earlier in the day, a hundred demonstrators awaited him, banging on pots or metal dishes. “You are asked to back up to the next crossroads, you are still in the area of the prefectural decree”launches a gendarme to opponents wearing CFDT or CGT-Metallurgie chasubles.
A few minutes before the presidential visit to the premises of the wooden construction company Mathis, the lights go out. The power cut is claimed by the CGT-FNME. A sign that the moment is important, the Head of State came twice to answer questions from the press at length. Inflexible, ironic even. “It’s not saucepans that will make France move forward, he blurts out, before smiling. We can relaunch the saucepan industry on a massive scale… I don’t think they’re trying to talk, they’re trying to make noise. If we only listen to people who make noise to cover words, we don’t get out of it. (…) You can’t convince people who aren’t listening. » Behind him, the deputy of La France insoumise (LFI) Emmanuel Fernandes, elected from the department, covers his mouth with a gag where he is registered « 49.3 ». “I am here to make the voice of France heard, mainly against the reform which has been muzzled, Macron will have to get used to it and it is not this kind of communication gadgets that will save him”asserts the “rebellious” deputy.
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