This Friday, April 14, Emmanuel Macron inspects the progress of the reconstruction site of Notre-Dame Cathedral. The masterpiece of Gothic architecture will soon have the appearance it had before being partly ravaged by flames in 2019. “It was never easy but we overcame all the obstacles”, prompting the Head of State, General Jean-Louis Georgelin, in charge of this titanic restoration.
“What didn’t I hear four years ago when I said we were going to do it in five years. But it’s when you set a course with an ambition that you make things happen.”concludes the President of the Republic. “Don’t give up, that’s my motto”, he completes. For the occasion, the Ile de la Cité was meticulously patrolled by a large force of police and CRS protecting the Head of State from any external aggression. No vehicle, no quidam, no curious is authorized. As the symbol of an isolated but determined power.
Barely the pension reform validated by the Constitutional Council, Emmanuel Macron officially promulgated the new law. No offense to the inter-union which had asked him on Friday “solemnly” of ” not [la] promulgate”.
“End of the institutional and democratic process”
Text validation “marks the end of the institutional and democratic progress of this reform “, coldly proclaimed Matignon, as soon as the decision of the Constitutional Council was known, anticipating a “balanced pension system in 2030”. “At no time have we flouted the law”welcomed, for her part, the leader of the group of Renaissance deputies in the Assembly, Aurore Bergé.
In fact, apart from six “social riders” detected, forcing the Council to censor, in particular, the index and the CDI seniors planned to help the oldest to remain on the labor market, the text allowing to go back from 62 to 64 years the retirement age is deemed constitutional. The shared initiative referendum, on which the left relied to counter the reform thanks to the citizen vote, is itself rejected.
The left is sounded but does not disarm. The Constitutional Council has shown that it is “more attentive to the needs of the presidential monarchy than to those of the sovereign people”, growls Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise. ” The struggle continues “he engages. « The pension reform will permanently poison Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term, promises the president of the “rebellious” group to the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot. “It’s a disappointment, not a surrender”insists the boss of the socialists, Olivier Faure.
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