After several weeks of withdrawal during the explosive debate on pension reform, Emmanuel Macron is back on the front stage. The Head of State goes Tuesday morning to the Rungis market, in the Paris suburbs, to go “alongside French people who work early”, announced Monday February 20 the Elysée.
He will then participate on Saturday at the opening of the Paris Agricultural Show. Rungis, in the Val-de-Marne just south of the capital, is the largest fresh produce market in the world and covers 234 hectares.
Challenged in the street and in Parliament on pensions, the executive tries to open a debate on the improvement of living conditions at work and to emphasize a necessary “effort”. “To balance our pension system, yes, we have to work more”, “yes, we have to get up early to go to work,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told Le Parisien, castigating the idea. “leftist, bobo, from a society without work, without effort”.
