2023-05-06 04:30:09
Emmanuel Macron no longer has the same ardor as five years earlier. But this May 7, 2022, when the Head of State addresses his some 450 guests who have come to attend his investiture, the man, aware of having accomplished a feat by having been re-elected without having undergone cohabitation, remains full of hope. ” The people, does it ignite, did not extend the mandate which is coming to an end. » This is a “new mandate”, entrusted by “a new people”, made of “respect and consideration”where power will be exercised by a “new method, far from rituals and worn-out choreographies”he said.
In the front row, Marisol Touraine, former minister of social affairs, who rubbed shoulders with the young president when he was “only » Deputy Secretary General of the Elysée under the mandate of François Hollande, awaits the handshake that everyone is watching. Then dares a word when his turn comes: “You have your hands free now, you can do whatever you want. » “We are still in a country…”replies the head of state. “You can take it”she assures. “Yes, we can board it”he convinces himself.
A year later, the hands of the re-elected president are no longer « free », but bound by a relative majority in the National Assembly, where neither left nor right intend to act as allies. The country, above all, was embarked nowhere. The pension reform, painstakingly carried out during the campaign, now enacted after being adopted in the National Assembly thanks to article 49.3 of the Constitution to avoid a vote, has raised the country against Emmanuel Macron and galvanized opposition.
“Inner Pilgrimage”
Marisol Touraine herself judges the reform “unfair”. To the point that his past encouragements take on the appearance of a “Kiss of Judas”, mocks Sylvain Maillard, deputy for Paris and vice-president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly. In May 2022, “I was not thinking so much of the pension reform as of the general orientation of its action: what will remain of his mandates? It’s up to him to decide if it will lean to the left or to the right.justifies today Marisol Touraine.
Within Renaissance, there is no longer any question of celebrating the first anniversary of the investiture. Sunday, May 7, activists will blow out the sixth candle since the victory in the 2017 presidential election with a towing and display operation, to remind the French of what the executive has done. ” for us “ (this is the slogan), by listing concrete measures, such as the reimbursement of optical costs or paternity leave, which have changed the lives of citizens.
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