The French President, Emmanuel Macronwho is going through his lowest hours at the Élysée, faces this Wednesday what is probably the most difficult interview since he became president.
His controversial pension reform is the central theme of an interview that has raised a huge expectation in France. “Do you think it makes me happy to make this reform? No!”, said Macron, who defends the need for this reform and tries to appease widespread protests in France. Follow her live:
The French president has shown this Wednesday his confidence that the pension reform approved by Parliament enter into force before the end of the yeardespite street protests against that project.
“It would be good so that 1.8 million people see their pension increased about 600 euros per year”, assured the French president during the interview with the two main television channels in the country, France 2 and TF1.
Macron has said that the reform now depends on the opinion of the Constitutional Councilbut not of the street protests that, he has said, “we must respect when they are peaceful, but not when they resort to extreme violence.”