Interpellated by mayors, Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday defended his controversial sentence last autumn where he had assured an unemployed person that it was enough for him to "cross the street" to "find a job".
Mayors slip an allusion to the little sentence. While answering a question about mobility in rural areas, the head of state explained "we told our fellow citizens, you want a job, you have to come to work in the big city". "You cross the street," ironically interrupted several of the 600 mayors gathered in the gymnasium of Grand Bourgtheroulde, in the Eure, triggering laughter in the audience.
"I am like that I will not change". "Me, where I live, crossing the street, I can tell you we find", work, he retorted without disassembling, in reference to the upscale neighborhood around the Elysee. "Sometimes we make caricatures, thinking that what someone says a moment, in good faith, it would be a message to all the French, he regretted." We are at the time of digital, info continuously, I'm like that I will not change, "he said.
This small sentence, which he launched to a young unemployed in the gardens of the Elysee in September, to push him to look for work in the surrounding coffee shops, was very often cited by his opponents and by the "vests "as an example of a disconnect with the reality of unemployment.
New polemic sentence Tuesday. The head of state has unleashed a new volley of criticism of the oppositions on Tuesday after having declared, shortly before the launch of the great debate: "People in difficulty, we will be more responsible because there are some who do well and there are some who are kidding ".