• Presidential candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the lead, accused the President of the Republic of wanting to offer apprenticeship from college, from the 5th class.

    “Fake news!

    “, replied Emmanuel Macron on Monday.

  • During his trip to Charente-Maritime last Thursday, the president-candidate defended “alternating, learning and orientation from the 5th.

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  • According to his team, it is only the “discovery of trades” that will be offered from the second year of college, not apprenticeship.

    Published on March 17, its program clearly mentions this measure.

If Emmanuel Macron hopes to push back the retirement age to 65, he has been accused, for a few days, of wanting to make certain adolescents work from the age of 12.

More specifically to offer apprenticeship and work-study programs from college, from the 5th grade.

Sunday, at a meeting in Toulouse, Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused the president-candidate of wanting to send "a 12-year-old kid in apprenticeship".

This accusation, the rebellious presidential candidate is not the only one to have made it.

Sandrine Rousseau, candidate for the EELV primary and many activists on social networks also railed against this measure.

Very upset, Emmanuel Macron replied this Monday morning to our colleagues from France Inter, describing the words of his opponent as “fake news”: “I never said that at 12, young people had to be apprenticed!

I said that it was necessary to allow children to know trades.

It has nothing to do.

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Today, it is possible to start an apprenticeship course from the age of 15.

The “junior apprenticeship”, from the age of 14, has been abolished.

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At the origin of the controversy, a video relayed in particular by LREM's Twitter account.

The action takes place on Thursday March 31, during its trip to Fouras in Charente-Maritime.

We see Emmanuel Macron there addressed by a restaurateur who tells him that he has "all the difficulties in the world to hire staff", before asking him what he intends to do to solve this problem.

After praising the reform of unemployment insurance and the resources invested in training – “We have put a package together to train precisely in these trades, where there are needs” –, Emmanuel Macron continues with a third argument: “ We need to make your professions known, and therefore work-study, learning and orientation from the 5th to know, make these professions known.

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The president even continues on this theme by asking: “Are you ready to take on apprentices?

“In front of the affirmative answer of his interlocutor, Emmanuel Macron concludes:” But then, for once, if you are ready to take some, we will find you some!

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Faced with the controversy that is rising at the end of the week, Macronie is mobilizing on social networks to clarify the president's remarks.

On Sunday, the Paris Majority Presidential Twitter account assures that Emmanuel Macron has "never offered apprenticeship or work-study from the age of 12".

And to share a video of the candidate insisting on the half-day dedicated to the orientation he wishes to set up in college.

While he addresses the "discovery of trades", the outgoing president does not mention the possibility of work-study or apprenticeship.

Like this Monday morning on France Inter.

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, the LREM team insists on the difference that is made, in Emmanuel Macron's program, between the future half-days "Futures", dedicated to "the discovery of professions" in colleges, and the reform the vocational high school which, for its part, concerns apprenticeship and work-study.

Indeed, in Emmanuel Macron's program, online since March 17, the candidate writes: "All children will discover, from 5th to 3rd grade, several trades, including technical and manual trades.

Next promise: “Make the vocational high school a path to excellence, with the method that has succeeded in learning.

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