(Paris) Emmanuel Macron assured Saturday that in the event of re-election he would lead “a new great permanent debate” with the French around several projects, such as “school, health, institutional reform”, so that “responsibility » reforms « be shared ».
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“I want our project to be able to be based on a method involving more of our compatriots, in the long term, including the day after the election, by giving them a place as real actors”, pleaded the Head of State, in a video of about twenty minutes put online on Saturday and which must be broadcast in several regional gatherings.
During the five-year period that is coming to an end, “we have implemented reforms, sometimes with cavalcade, like a hussar. And our compatriots, even when they believed, wanted to be the actors too, wanted to carry out these reforms”, observed Mr. Macron.
Referring to “major projects on school, health, institutional reform”, Mr. Macron therefore assured that if he were re-elected, “for months, we will lead a new major permanent debate to act”.
The slogan “’With you’ won’t stop with the vote. During the next five years we will preside, govern, act with you”, because “the responsibility must basically be shared”, he insisted.
Mr. Macron also confirmed that he would further detail his program “next week”, promising in particular “great ambitions for our school, our health, the care of dependency and therefore a real project of autonomy which is essential for old age” or “strong measures for ecology, equality between women and men, for inclusion”.
In this context, Mr. Macron indicated that his project would be “structured” around four “pacts”.
The “European pact, for our protection, our sovereignty”; “a pact between the generations, from very early childhood to old age”; “a productive pact because to support our social model […], we must be able to work more and produce more”; and “a republican pact, because the unity of the nation also involves the defense of secularism, stronger security and justice, respect for our borders and a project of republican integration”.
Mr. Macron has in passing returned to the pension reform, which he intends to carry out “quickly”, notably bringing the legal age of departure, “gradually and in stages to 65 years old”.
This reform “will first take into account long careers and difficult careers because you have to be fair, working until age 65 is not the same for everyone”, he assured.
As for ecology, on this day of “march for the climate”, he sees in it “a shield against high cost of living”. Mr. Macron thus assured that he wanted to “go further” to allow “the middle classes” to “change vehicles more easily and faster”, and thus buy “hybrid or electric vehicles”