France: Emmanuel Macron welcomed in Vendôme by a concert of pots and pans

2023-04-25T17:41:51.410Z

Highlights: Emmanuel Macron was in Vendôme in the Loir-et-Cher this Tuesday afternoon, April 25. Since the promulgation of the pension reform, the head of state has made a series of thematic trips to the daily life of the French. Today, he visited a university nursing home and spoke for about an hour and a half with professionals in the sector. But again, the French president had a welcoming committee of angry Frenchmen with pots and pans. He did not go to meet them or his supporters who had also come to try to see him.

Emmanuel Macron was in Vendôme in the Loir-et-Cher this Tuesday afternoon, April 25. Since the promulgation of the pension reform, the Head of State has made a series of thematic trips to life...

France: Emmanuel Macron welcomed in Vendôme by a concert of pots and pans

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French President Emmanuel Macron leaves by car after a visit to a multidisciplinary university health center (MSPU) in Vendôme as part of a trip dedicated to access to care, the attractiveness of health professions and the issue of "medical desertification" in some regions of France, April 25, 2023. REUTERS - GONZALO FUENTES

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Emmanuel Macron was in Vendôme in the Loir-et-Cher this Tuesday afternoon, April 25. Since the promulgation of the pension reform, the head of state has made a series of thematic trips to the daily life of the French. Today, he visited a university nursing home and spoke for about an hour and a half with professionals in the sector. But again, the French president had a welcoming committee of angry Frenchmen with pots and pans.

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The trips follow one another and are similar for the President of the Republic. Once again, a few dozen demonstrators gathered near the Vendôme health home. Objective: to maintain pressure on Emmanuel Macron.

We want to be seen, we want to be heard. He doesn't listen to anyone, he doesn't want to see us. There is a security perimeter, we cannot even go and approach it. He doesn't want to see us, he doesn't want to hear us, but we're here and there are people everywhere he goes, where his representatives move to show, to remind him that no, we don't agree, we still don't agree, we're angry."

⁦@EmmanuelMacron⁩ va bientôt arriver à Vendôme... The welcoming committee is there but kept at a distance by the security device. pic.twitter.com/N7d7kvOgBI

— Valerie Gas (@VGGAS) April 25, 2023

The head of state did not see them. He did not go to meet them or his supporters who had also come to try to see him:

If we are critical for simply banging on a pan, it does not move things forward, it's true, it shows without disapproving what I can understand, eh? It's normal, but there are times when you have to find the consensus between everyone."

The perimeter has been secured with roadblocks and police to avoid any disruption. A generator has even been installed behind the nursing home in case there are power cuts, as during one of his trips last week.

Despite the protest that persists, Emmanuel Macron wants to continue to move on the sidelines of this visit, the president said: "If I stop and look at the scenery, it will not move the country forward."

France: Emmanuel Macron welcomed in Vendôme by a concert of pots and pans

France: Emmanuel Macron welcomed in Vendôme by a concert of pots and pans

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