Arthur Delaborde 7:35 p.m., April 29, 2022
Emmanuel Macron wants a return to calm and harmony after the presidential battle.
The re-elected president went to a market near Tarbes, for a walkabout in Barbazan.
A trip to the Hautes-Pyrénées under the sign of appeasement.
The Head of State has promised the French that he has met a more social second five-year term.
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The atmosphere was rather good-natured on the Barbazan market, this small village of just over 3,000 inhabitants.
But between the black pork of Bigorre and other local products, residents have expressed their concern about purchasing power and wages.
"The reforms we have made have made it possible to recreate jobs"
"Think about giving employees a better distribution of wealth. The gap between rich and poor is growing, especially in the business world," said a resident facing the head of state.
"I would not have the same reading of these facts because, yes, the reforms that we have made have made it possible to recreate jobs and to ward off what was still the great French evil, that is to say unemployment. mass", replies Emmanuel Macron.
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Social measures for the summer
Others, like this lady, challenge the president on pensions.
"I get €990 a month, I pay €300 in rent, €350 in health insurance," she told him.
"In the pension reform that I want to do, this contributory minimum which is a little over 980, I would like us to do it at 1,100 euros", replied the president.
It is therefore this France that he calls rurality that Emmanuel Macron has come to try to reassure, promising social measures for the summer on purchasing power, school and health in the shorter term on the choice of its new Prime Minister.
"Everything in its own time," replied the head of state.