In full social anger, the visit of Charles III “in the sights” of the demonstrators
Social anger over pensions in France threatens to disrupt the visit next week of British sovereign Charles III, whom opposition politicians are calling for to be canceled and who is “in sight” of trade unionists.
Green MP Sandrine Rousseau called on Wednesday for the cancellation of the king’s visit, which is due to arrive on Sunday because, according to her, the priority of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, must be to “Discuss with the society that is rising up” against pension reform. “Incredible, we are going to have Emmanuel Macron, the Republican monarch, who will receive Charles III, who will go down the Champs-Elysées, who will go to dinner in Versailles, while the people in the street are demonstrating”she was indignant on BFM-TV and RMC.
On the union side, “We will continue to mobilize [contre la réforme] and this visit will be in our sights”warned Mathieu Obry (CGT) and Yvan Fort (FO) in the daily South West this week.
“It is almost certain that the king will not be able to take the tram” in Bordeaux as he planned, also anticipated Pascal Mesgueni, CFTC delegate to the transport company TBM.
If the prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nunez, said to himself “very serene” on BFM-TV, Buckingham Palace, however, is keeping a worried eye on the protests, reports the Daily Mailwhich evokes additional logistical precautions.
Emmanuel Macron “is certainly more comfortable with monarchs than with the elected representatives of the people, to whom he denies the right to vote on his pension reform”tackled Ian Brossat, spokesperson for the PCF, after the forceps adoption of this text via Article 49.3 of the Constitution.
Socialist Senator Rémi Cardon for his part observed that“there will be no walkabout” of Charles III and Emmanuel Macron.
On the far left, the spokesperson for the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) Olivier Besancenot summed up, hilarious, on Franceinfo: Charles III, “We’re going to greet him with a good old general strike!” »