2023-04-25 17:44:28
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Ten days after the enactment of the pension reform by the head of state, the social context remains extremely tense in France. Following the example of Emmanuel Macron, ministers and deputies move on the ground, but the experience is not conclusive. These visits from the Executive are always booed by the protesters, pans in hand.
Gare de Lyon, in Paris, this Monday evening, April 24, a surprise pot concert awaited the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye. He finally left through a back door, away from the protesters. A few hours earlier, in Lyon, his trip had already been interrupted.
On Monday night it was the turn of the Minister of Culture to be questioned by artists at the Molière awards ceremony for the theater: “Let the fight continue”, “And long live the pans!”, could be heard. Rima Abdul-Malak took the microphone to defend her government and denounce, according to her, a double game by the unions.
On Saturday, April 22, the Renaissance deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, Jean-Marc Zulesi, was chased by protesters in the streets of Salon-de-Provence, in the south of France. He filed a complaint.
The Executive intends to continue his travels
The examples multiply every day, but for Gabriel Attal, Minister of Public Accounts, we must continue advancing. “We have not waited until we heard pans to listen to the French and listen to the French. The important thing is that we keep moving forward and that we come into contact with the French,” he said. Emmanuel Macron, who is also booed on each of his trips, asked the majority to multiply his trips.
The Prefecture of the Loir-et-Cher department tried to ban demonstrations and “sound amplifying sound devices” for a visit by the president on Tuesday, but the Orleans administrative court suspended the measure. “In the absence of special circumstances, a trip by the President of the Republic cannot be considered to justify, by its very nature, the establishment of a security perimeter,” the court estimated. So the president was greeted with pans and whistles.
“Way to Express Your Anger”
The noise of the pans “are the consequences of the will and obstinacy of the President of the Republic,” Manuel Bompard, of La Francia Insumisa (radical left), declared on Tuesday. Speaking to BFMTV, he considered that “it’s normal for people to find ways to express their anger until the president hears the message and moves.” “If we want to get out of this crisis, we have to propose a political solution,” he asserted.
“Eggs and saucepans are only for cooking,” Macron said last week. A phrase that did nothing but sow greater discontent among his opponents.
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