Emmanuel Macron was re-elected president on Sunday evening, helped in particular by the anti-Le Pen vote.
Many voters have certainly participated in the Republican roadblock but are now in the starting blocks to demonstrate against the President's measures.
Social anger is simmering, but will it overflow?
Busy Sunday for Thomas, a 33-year-old Parisian psychologist.
In the morning, reluctant vote for Emmanuel Macron.
In the evening, participation in a demonstration… against Emmanuel Macron, crying out for the resignation of the barely elected president.
A political paradox which he justifies: “Objectively, Le Pen was much worse, you had to vote against her.
Now that it's done, we will have to arrange to calm the Macron ... "
After the Republican roadblock and the useful vote, it is therefore time for demonstrations, placards and social protest.
Thomas announces his intention to bring En Marche to heel: “Over the next five years, we will be spending a lot of time on the street.
This is the only way to fight against the total social breakdown of France.
We certainly voted for him, but that does not mean that we will not fight against his reforms or his ideas.
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backfire
Same story and war drums at Justine.
Brown hair and ideas tinged with red, the thirty-year-old nurse also predicts five years of struggle against the newly reelected president.
And it is not the interview with Bruno Le Maire, Monday on FranceInfo, which will appease him, the Minister of the Economy not closing the door to a 49-3 to pass the highly contested pension reform, evoking in passing a great success for Emmanuel Macron.
“From the first day, they regained confidence, we will have to bring them back down to earth quickly,” she breathes.
The program is planned: demonstration on May 1, re-demonstration at the first mention of the pension reform in the Assembly, and vote for the left in the legislative elections, on June 12.
At Justine, it's all about strategy:
“I voted for Macron because it is easier to beat the far right at the polls and liberalism in the streets than the other way around.
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Social anger is simmering, but is it really likely to overflow?
The results of the first round gave the first elements of an answer, with France divided into three blocs: the left, the liberal bloc and the extreme right.
“The collapse of the Socialist Party and the Republicans confirms a confrontation between an officially centrist party, but imposing non-negotiated neoliberal reforms, and two radicalized blocs on the extreme right and left.
They can only announce the development of a social protest in the street, unless the Parliament becomes again a place of debate and negotiation ”, estimates Sophie Jehel, specialist in Social Sciences and lecturer at the University of Paris 8 .
Reforms particularly feared
Almost divine mission with Nathalie, who speaks of nothing less than “saving France”: “We did the first part of the job by voting against Le Pen on Sunday.
Place in round 2 where we must save our social achievements ”.
The professor has decided to join a union and participate in its first demonstration on May 1st.
“Of course, I'm afraid of LBDs, gases and traps.
But there, there is no more choice, you have to fight against what is happening.
I have two children, and if we do nothing now, they will work until they are 80 by dint of letting everything pass”.
She evokes "what is happening" - the pension reform, the end of the television license fee, "therefore the end of the public service" -, but also what preceded it - the reform of unemployment insurance, the labor law... The all sprinkled with historical inflation, just to get closer to the powder keg.
Thomas: “We are exhausted after two years of pandemic, confinement, curfew and economic hardship.
Everyone is on edge."
“A cleavage crystallizes with Emmanuel Macron between upper classes favorable to the liberalization of international trade, confident in the media system, and working classes who feel at the same time despised, losers and threatened by the adaptations that the health and climate crises make it necessary, continues Sophie Jehel.
The mobilization of "yellow vests" represents a precedent that a spark can revive.
End of the peace of the streets
For Nathalie, it is clear that “without the pandemic, the “yellow vests” would have returned a long time ago.
Now that the Covid-19 is starting to wear off and Macron is re-elected, social unrest is ready to resume.
"" Part of the popular anger is maintained and exploited by simplistic speeches, however denounces Sophie Jehel.
It is to be feared that these populist strategies will continue to fuel emotions of rage which will make the adaptation efforts necessarily required in the face of the current crises all the less understandable for the working classes.
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What does it matter for Thomas: “We organize ourselves, with the unions, the associations, the political contacts.
We won't let anything pass.
For a long time, with the health rules, the government had peace in the street.
He will quickly relearn how much she doesn't love him, and how much she knows how to make herself heard.
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