Paris (AFP)
Faced with social tensions, respond with concrete and local: this is the challenge of Emmanuel Macron, who goes Thursday in the Marne to illustrate the implementation of its reforms, while in Paris will be held a major event for hospital.
The head of state will visit to begin the Memorial of the two battles of the Marne (September 1914 and July 1918) installed in Dormans, near Reims. He had promised last year to go there, because he could not include this monument in his "memorial roaming" of the Great War.
He will then go to Epernay (24,000 inhabitants), where under the aegis of various right mayor Franck Leroy, LREM support to the European, he will attend a meeting of the city council. Maybe he will take advantage of it for a walkabout.
He will follow a meeting with the prefect of the Marne, Denis Conus, to "verify" the implementation of some of his reforms locally.
On one side of the table, Emmanuel Macron, his Minister of Territorial Communities, Sébastien Lecornu, and some advisers. In front of them, the prefect, the sub-prefect and collaborators. A session with a great oral perfume for the prefect.
The head of state, two and a half years old after taking office, will assess for the Marne the indicators of the action of the state - nicknamed "OVQ" ("object of the daily life") - supposed to give quantified measures of the progress of the reforms.
He will ask for a review of the thermal renovations of housing, the opening of health homes, the number of apprentices, the schooling of children with disabilities, broadband coverage or houses "France Services" bringing together several services public. And if the objectives are not met, the prefect will have to explain the brakes.
"This is a kind of continuous monitoring to verify how the impulses given in Paris are interpreted and implemented mid-term," says the Elysee.
This is the first time that the press can attend such an exchange, but Emmanuel Macron is used during his travels to review with the prefects, which he personally watches appointments.
Despite important security measures, the CGT has planned a rally in the center of Epernay at 14H00.
- Trial disconnected -
A year after the start of the revolt of "yellow vests", this day in the Marne mark the will of the president to show its proximity to the concerns of the French, in full resurgence of social tensions.
Especially since an Elabe poll shows that 55% of French people approve the mobilization of "yellow jackets" last year and that 71% believe that the movement did not allow Emmanuel Macron to better understand the realities of everyday life .
A trial disconnected continues despite its 100 hours of great debate.
His trip is telescope with the demonstration Thursday in Paris hospital staff, who hope for an impending fiscal extension.
The "yellow vests" intend to remobilise them this weekend while a student challenge has arisen since a young man set himself on fire on Friday to denounce his precarious situation.
The government is "vigilant" in the face of these categorical claims, spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said Wednesday. Four months of municipal, the executive fears a proliferation of fronts, while a strike of the SNCF and the RATP is announced for December 5.
Next Tuesday, in the same spirit of "listening and dialogue", says the Elysee, Emmanuel Macron will open the Congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), which he had shunned last year.
This "major territorial sequence" will continue in Amiens, where the Head of State will visit on 21 and 22 November on topics ranging from youth, which Amiens is the European capital for 2020, to rail service, through the former Whirlpool employees.
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