Emmanuel Macron said, Friday, March 24, “at the disposal of the inter-union” once the Constitutional Council has rendered its decision on the pension reform.
“I indicated our availability to move forward on subjects such as professional wear and tear, career endings, retraining, career development, working conditions, remuneration in certain branches”, declared the head of the State at a press conference in Brussels.
“And, therefore, I am at the disposal of the intersyndicale if they wish to come and meet me to make progress on all these subjects. For the rest and the pension reform, it is before the Constitutional Council and it is obvious that we will await the decision of the Constitutional Council. But “the country cannot stand still”, “we keep moving forward”, he continued.
‘Extraordinarily violent and equipped’ militants
Accused by his opponents of forgetting the “new method” made up of dialogue and consultation that he promised during his re-election in 2022, Emmanuel Macron had already regretted on Wednesday, in the context of a television interview, that no one grabbed the government’s outstretched hand, which drew a strong reaction from union leaders.
Since the use of article 49.3, which allowed the adoption without a vote of the pension reform, spontaneous demonstrations, often accompanied by scuffles and muscular police repression, are linked in the capital as in the provinces. Asked about the clashes that erupted on Thursday during the ninth day of mobilization, Mr. Macron condemned them with “the greatest firmness”, while evoking the necessary “full and complete” respect for ethics in maintaining security. ‘order.
“I especially saw scenes where many of our police officers, our gendarmes, were the object of totally disproportionate aggression on the part of extraordinarily violent and equipped militants (…) We will not yield anything to this violence”, a- he assured.
