After enacting the pension reform, Macron will address the French on Monday

Emmanuel Macron will address the French on Monday, after the express promulgation of the pension reform, which seized unions and oppositions on Saturday and showed the president's desire to quickly relaunch his second five-year term hampered by the social and political crisis

After enacting the pension reform, Macron will address the French on Monday

Emmanuel Macron will address the French on Monday, after the express promulgation of the pension reform, which seized unions and oppositions on Saturday and showed the president's desire to quickly relaunch his second five-year term hampered by the social and political crisis. The Élysée announced at midday that the head of state would address the French during a speech on Monday evening.

Emmanuel Macron will speak "in a logic of appeasement", to "take stock" of the three months of crisis, and "also look at what has advanced alongside pensions", promised on TF1 the government spokesman , Olivier Véran, citing the drop in unemployment and taxes, the increase in the number of apprentices, etc.

The four representative unions of the SNCF called on Saturday for a "day of expression of railway anger" next Thursday, presented as a "stage of preparation" for the May 1 demonstrations. The date of April 20 falls on the eve of school holidays in the Paris and Occitan regions and a crossover weekend in the other areas which are already on leave. “The nightly promulgation of the law does not change our fight at all. We will not move on until this law is abandoned," said CGT-Cheminots, Unsa-Ferroviaire, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots in a press release, which have been on strike since 7 March. The CGT discussed upcoming actions in all sectors on Thursday 20 and Friday 28 April.

Since the announcement of this promulgation, "misunderstanding" has prevailed among the unions. But far from being defeatist, they reaffirmed their "determination" and called the decision a "provocation" and a "forced passage". “We used to have an arsonist-prone executive… Now he seems to enjoy throwing oil on the fire. Nothing good will come of this. It's not over, the fight for pensions and social justice continues! reacted Laurent Escure, the secretary general of Unsa.

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The national secretary of the CFDT Yvan Ricordeau expressed, for his part, his "misunderstanding" in the face of this "passage in force". While Emmanuel Macron had invited the unions to the Élysée (after refusing several appointments), the CFDT, "like all trade union organizations", claimed not to respond favorably to this invitation. "There is a promulgation in the night and we officially received the invitation at 11 p.m. yesterday", he continued on RMC, describing the working meeting proposed by the President of the Republic on Friday as "without method, without object, without content". "It's posting," he pointed out.

After the Constitutional Council's decision on Friday, the unions had asked French President Emmanuel Macron "solemnly" not to "promulgate the law", a request that remained a dead letter. A decision deemed "shameful" by the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet. “From the beginning, the contempt returned to the workers will have been constant. But their dignity in the street is stronger, "reacted his counterpart at the CFDT, Laurent Berger.

“The executive believes it is undermining social mobilization by enacting its brutal law in the middle of the night. It is not so. Emmanuel Macron, you will not be able to turn the page. You aggravate social and political crises. Our determination is complete. We are millions,” tweeted Simon Duteil, co-delegate of Solidaires.

The executive believes it is undermining social mobilization by enacting its brutal law in the middle of the night. It is not so.@EmmanuelMacron, you will not be able to turn the page. You aggravate social and political crises. Our determination is complete. We are millions.

"He said, 'I have 48 hours.' He had two weeks to do so, and during those two weeks, he could have taken article 10 of the Constitution and sent it back (the text before Parliament, editor's note), since his law was censored with all the social riders, everything which was the sweet that the Republicans had gotten. I would love to see the Republican senators today, saying, "If there's anything about seniors, it's going to be without us." Well today is it with them or without them? “, he continued.

The inter-union is banking on the traditional May 1 meeting which it wishes to transform into an "exceptional and popular mobilization day" against the heart of the reform, retirement at 64.

Political opponents have also stepped up. It's an "absurd display of arrogance" for LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and a sign of "febrility", according to PS number one Olivier Faure, who promised "democratic harassment" to reverse the 64 years old. Socialist deputies and senators have planned to table a legislative text asking for the repeal of the reform. "It's a democratic hold-up", added the Insoumis François Ruffin while Marine Le Pen pinned "yet another provocation against the French".

The promulgation, "it is the logical continuation", justified for his part the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, for whom "we have no collective interest in constantly returning to the same subject". Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt said on Saturday that he did not see "what difference it made" to wait to enact the law on pension reform.

"What a difference it made to wait three days, four days or five days, while the text is validated," said Olivier Dussopt on France Culture. "The law is passed, validated and therefore it must be published as it is," he added.

This reform, "it was the only way to protect the weakest, their pensions, those who had the level of remuneration, the most modest level of qualification", defended Saturday the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, on the occasion of a National Council of the Renaissance presidential party in Paris.

The president had fifteen days after the validation of most of the reform measures by the Constitutional Council to affix his signature and thus give it its enforceable nature. He will have done it after only a few hours.