“There is no contempt, on the contrary there is a desire to work with everyone.” The Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, replied on Sunday April 16 to Laurent Berger, secretary general of the CFDT, and Sophie Binet, secretary general of the CGT who accused the government of despising opponents of pension reform. “Maybe there is a form of symbol to wait three or four days” but “there is no brutality in applying the law”also observed the minister on Europe 1 to respond to criticism of the rapid promulgation of the pension law. Follow our live.
Elisabeth Borne wants to keep up the pace. The Prime Minister assured, on Saturday, before the National Council of the Renaissance party in Paris, that she and her team were “determined to speed up” reforms. “We want to build a France of full employment”, “ensure equal opportunities”, “to act” for health and even education, she said. “I am convinced that if the time is not for coalitions, majorities are possible, project by project, to offer solutions to the French.”
For the CGT, Emmanuel Macron becomes “the president of chaos”. The new general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, believes that Emmanuel Macron is destroying social cohesion. He “was not elected to reform pensions, he was elected to block the National Rally. And he does the opposite: with his policy, he opens a boulevard to the National Rally”criticized the number 1 of the CGT in an interview with the newspapers of the regional press group Ebra, which brings together titles like Progress Or The Latest News from Alsace.
New violence in Rennes. A demonstration against the reform degenerated again in the Breton prefecture: vandalized businesses, two burnt cars, clashes with the police. More than a thousand people had gathered calmly at the beginning of the afternoon on Place de la République, at the call in particular of Rennes collectives on social networks. Event “unauthorized”according to the prefecture.
Emmanuel Macron will speak on Monday. The President of the Republic will speak on Monday at 8 p.m., the Elysée announced to franceinfo on Saturday. He will speak “in a logic of appeasement”according to Olivier Véran, for ” take stock” of the three months of crisis, and “also look at what has advanced alongside pensions”.