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Traveling to a high school in Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Emmanuel Macron unveiled his plan for vocational high schools, Thursday, May 4. A passage which again mobilized the opponents of the pension reform, who came with pans.
Only a few hundred meters from the high school visited by Emmanuel Macron in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), Thursday May 4, the sound of saucepans resounds. The demonstrators managed to approach by going up the railway, despite a prefectural order. Among the opponents of the pension reform who had mobilized were also students and members of the teaching profession, who came to denounce the measures for the vocational high school that the President of the Republic announced during the day.
Electricity temporarily cut off
During this hectic trip, the current was even temporarily cut by the CGT in the establishment. A generator took over. Coming to present his measures for the professional path, Emmanuel Macron promised an investment of one billion euros per year. Asked by a high school student how he intended to finance this promise, the President of the Republic assured that the pension reform should precisely allow such investments.