Jacques Serais / Photo credit: Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP 07:55, June 06, 2023

Emmanuel Macron continues his visit to Normandy. After Mont-Saint-Michel, it's time for the landing beaches. The president will pay tribute to the soldiers who died on this part of the French coast on June 6, 1944. A way to commemorate history, and also to definitively close the chapter of pensions.

And 14! This Tuesday, June 6 will be marked by a new mobilization against the pension reform. While some of the French opposed to the reform of the government will pack the pavement, Emmanuel Macron will be on the beaches of Normandy to celebrate the 79th anniversary of the D-Day.

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The head of state chose Colleville-Montgomery, near Ouistreham, as a drop-off point. He will be accompanied for the occasion by the Prime Minister. After Mont-Saint-Michel yesterday, the executive continues to turn the pages of history to better close the chapter of pensions.

A united executive couple

Because the President of the Republic is convinced that the storm is behind him. "Things are calmer than they have been," he said. Even if "we must not get used to a minority radicalism," he adds. His move on this day of mobilization is a total counter-move. When the demonstrators are in the streets, he will be next to the last French survivor to have made the landing, Léon Gautier, 100 years old, for a tribute to the 177 French who participated in D-Day, June 6, 1944. Then he will inaugurate the new museum of Arromanches, ready before the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, which will be commemorated next year.

Above all, and the image will be scrutinized very closely, the head of state will appear alongside his Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, also elected from Calvados. The opportunity is too good for the executive couple to publicly affirm its solidity. Already Monday, Emmanuel Macron denied the existence of tensions with the host of Matignon. For him, it's not even literature, but lapping.