INTERVIEW
Emmanuel Macron, currently on tour in the Indian Ocean, was welcomed Wednesday to Reunion by a general strike. According to Michel Bussi, writer and political scientist, but also connoisseur of this department overseas, this strike is primarily symbolic.
"I do not think it (the strike) reflects a sense of injustice.When we know Reunion, the Reunion are very attached to the state, welfare state, so I think it's not is not really a feeling of distrust towards the state. " On the other hand, "we often brag about the miscegenation of Réunion, the fact that people come from several continents, as much from Asia as from Africa or Europe, and that is the great wealth of Reunion", recalls the political scientist. "But it is a territory that is profoundly unequal in terms of wealth and living conditions, we are going from territories that are paradises on Earth, where we live on the edge of the lagoon, to extremely difficult territories, because we live in the mountains, in the fog, so it's hard to manage these big social oppositions and obviously people ask the state to help them. "