France: Visiting Normandy, Macron hopes to leave pension reform behind

Opponents of the pension reform will march for the 14th time in France. A new day of mobilization that the executive hopes will be the last. Emmanuel Macron will be in Normandy, in Calvados, to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the landing, with Elisabeth Borne at his side.

Emmanuel Macron and his wife visiting Mont-Saint-Michel on June 5, 2023. AP - Ludovic Marin

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With our special envoy in Caen, Valérie Gas

Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne together to commemorate the landing, a good way to give, under the blue sky of Normandy, the image of a cloudless executive couple and evacuate rumors of disagreement to which the president tried to twist the neck. "What we wanted to create with the Prime Minister is not even literature, but lapping. We kind of create soap bubbles and there is not even foam anymore," he said.

Emmanuel Macron wants to appear above the controversies in the role of the president who celebrates the past to better project the country into the future while in the streets, it is still the opposition to his pension reform that will mobilize the French. Emmanuel Macron takes note: "It is normal that the oppositions can express themselves".

But the president's goal is to move on to the next step. "My mission is to continue to bring people together as widely as possible to move forward," he said.

To move forward, Emmanuel Macron announces that he wants to receive the unions himself. "My objective is that after this sequence, all the employers' and trade union organizations that are ready can come so that we open the game of the broadest negotiation, and that we let without taboo moreover discuss all the social partners an important agenda. This agenda must be defined by the summer, so that it can then give rise to work and I hope for robust conclusions by the end of the year."

An agenda that seems to take for granted the end of the mobilization against the pension reform.

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