The head of state will speak Monday at 20:00 on the main channels, in a highly anticipated speech, three days after the promulgation of the law raising the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

After this reform "hard and complicated", "it is normal that the president returns to the French to restore the course", exposes an adviser to the executive.

But for the president of the RN deputies Marine Le Pen, the "choice" is limited for Emmanuel Macron to "three solutions": referendum, dissolution of the Assembly or resignation, she launched to the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI.

The far-right leader returned to the flash promulgation of the reform Friday, in the wake of the validation of the essence of the text by the Constitutional Council: this "demonstrates that he is still in a state of mind of provocation," she said.

The inter-union, which has planned to meet again on Monday, has not laid down its arms and has already called for May 1 to be made "an exceptional and popular day of mobilization" against the reform.

The president of the RN deputies Marine Le Pen, on April 11, 2023 at Matignon in Paris © Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP

On the left, LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard maintains in the JDD that Emmanuel Macron's "only option" remains "the withdrawal of this text".

"The president should be the guarantor of concord. He is deeply disqualified to govern the country," EELV MP Julien Bayou also accused on Europe 1.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne assured the executives of the presidential party Renaissance on Saturday: "We are determined to accelerate" the reforms after that of pensions.

A week earlier, however, she had considered that it was "not necessary to rush things", evoking a "need for appeasement".

The coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard, on March 7, 2023 at the National Assembly in Paris © Thomas SAMSON / AFP / Archives

The boss of the MoDem and ally François Bayrou made his difference heard on Sunday: "I am not at all sure that the word accelerate is accurate". After a "dialogue of the deaf" between the executive and the unions, he pleaded on LCI to "reinvent social democracy in France".

Transport Minister Clément Beaune told BFMTV that it was not a question of "acting as if the country had not expressed a number of things by numerous demonstrations".

No "second retirement"

"Accelerate what? Contempt?" asked LFI MP Clémentine Autain during the Grand entretien France Inter-Franceinfo-Le Monde. She considers that the pension reform is "legal" now but not "legitimate", and promises a concert of "pots" at the time of Emmanuel Macron's intervention on Monday evening.

Transport Minister Clément Beaune, on April 11, 2023 at the National Assembly in Paris © Thomas SAMSON / AFP

Labour Minister Olivier Dussopt, on the other hand, rejected any "contempt": "On the contrary, there is a desire to work with all," he said at the Grand Rendez-vous d'Europe 1/CNews, calling for a resumption of social dialogue.

In the future, it is necessary "to do perhaps differently, with a different method, to consult more, to organize things more," said Renaissance Secretary General Stéphane Séjourné. "No one wants to redo the second retreat, I assure you."

However, on France 3, he wanted to "kill two ideas": that "there should be a turn to the left or right" and that "the France would be on pause".

Renaissance Secretary General Stéphane Séjourné, April 15, 2023 in Paris © Thomas SAMSON / AFP

The Republicans, whose leadership supported the pension reform, have been rather discreet in recent hours. But Xavier Bertrand, president (LR) of Hauts-de-France, has not spared Emmanuel Macron: he must "get out of denial" on his lack of absolute majority and his inability to carry out any "major reform".

The former Minister of Labour also called for "an end to all this tension" in the country, otherwise he would sink into "chaos".

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