in his televised address, Emmanuel Macron must try to reconnect with “what is happening in the country”

Will he be able to calm the tensions around the pension reform? Emmanuel Macron addresses the Frenchman in a televised address at 8 p.m. Monday April 17. The President will speak “in a logic of appeasement”For “take stock” three months of crisis, according to government spokesman Olivier Véran.

Emmanuel Macron wants to close the legislative process, so his speech seems logical for Thierry Vedel, CNRS researcher at the Sciences Po political research center. But on the appeasement that this speech can bring, the researcher seems much more mixed. “Especially since this speech comes after other signs that have not shown any relief, for example the fact of promulgating the law in the middle of the night”he analyzes.

“These types of small signs tend to exasperate part of public opinion and the population.”

Thierry Vedel

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A return of the president to the fore

The very important presence of the Head of State at the end of the process contrasts with his previous attitude, he who had played the distance, at least physical, until now. “Emmanuel Macron’s entire communication strategy in this crisis has been somewhat modeled on the one he had during the ‘vests yellow’,” estimated Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, professor of political communication at Sciences Po. “The president has gone abroad, he communicated through small postcards. The advantage for him is that he is not in the fray, he seems to be next to, or above .”

“The problem is that it is not connected with what is happening in the country. Emmanuel Macron is no longer one of the parties in the debate, and this can have a rather strong political price.”

Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, professor of political communication at Science Po

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According to the two experts, these three months have marked a political divide and the speech will not change anything.