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The president had a word for the protest movement that has shaken the country for three months, acknowledging that “anger was being expressed”.
“Is this an accepted reform? Obviously, no”, admitted Emmanuel Macron, Monday, April 17, during his televised address. After considering that the pension reform was “an effort”, he recognized that a consensus had not “could not be found”, what he “regret”.
“We must learn all the lessons from this, he continued. I heard in the demonstrators an opposition to the pension reform, but also a desire to find meaning in his work, to improve it”. For three months, a vast protest movement against this reform has shaken the country.
“It is all this anger that very many French people have expressed by demonstrating, and for the vast majority, in calm and respect for our institutions”, acknowledged the Head of State. No one, and especially not me, can remain deaf to this demand for social justice and the renovation of our democratic life.”
In front of “those anger”the fixed president “a clear course” : “that of our independence and justice”. is about “independence”, “it is built through ambitions, efforts at national and European level, in terms of knowledge, research, attractiveness, technology, industry and defence”he explains.
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