Despite the rebellion linked to the pension reform, the Head of State remains determined to continue his field trips. Emmanuel Macron went on Tuesday, April 25, to Vendôme, in the Loir-et-Cher, on the theme of health. Accompanied by the Minister of Health, François Braun, he visited the city’s multidisciplinary university health center (MSPU) and spoke with health professionals.
An important security device was put in place Tuesday in the middle of the day in the city center, where demonstrators greeted Emmanuel Macron with a “casserolade”, like his first two trips, in the Bas-Rhin on Wednesday and Hérault on Thursday. The neighborhood was cordoned off and a police barrier set up about fifty meters from the nursing home.
Shortly before 1 p.m., demonstrators were a few hundred meters from the nursing home, on the other side of the railway, and began their concert of pans. In a press release on Monday, the CGT du Loir-et-Cher announced its intention to “prepare” President Macron “a sound welcome to remind him that we are still opposed to his pension reform”.
Order prohibiting “sound amplifying devices” suspended
The Loir-et-Cher prefecture has published an order setting up a protection perimeter and providing in particular for the prohibition of protest rallies as well as “the prohibition of sound amplifiers”. A generator was brought in by truck.
Several associations, including the League for Human Rights (LDH), have seized the Orleans administrative court to challenge the decree of the prefect of Loir-et-Cher, Agence France-Presse learned from the court. , confirming information from France Bleu Orléans. The court clarified that the interim freedom of associations was examined at the beginning of the afternoon.
According to France Bleu, in addition to the LDH, the appeal was filed by an association for the defense of constitutional freedoms and the Syndicate of Lawyers of France (SAF), who believe that the prefectural decree “is a diversion of the law strengthening internal security and the fight against terrorism”.
In the afternoon, the order was suspended “due to the gross and manifestly unlawful interference with the freedom to come and go,” FAS announced on Twitter.
“Reengage”
Emmanuel Macron exchanged with the nursing staff, in a context of growing medical desertification in the territory. The Vendôme multidisciplinary university health center is made up of doctors, midwives and nurses. In conjunction with the University of Tours, it trains young doctors every year. To fight against medical desertification, Mr. Macron abolished the numerus clausus, which limited the training of new doctors, and doubled the number of health centers – there are 2,251 today in France – but the needs remain crying.
During his greetings to health actors on January 6, he promised to speed up the recruitment of medical assistants, who can perform simple acts to lighten the burden on doctors, and pledged that patients in long-term condition (ALD) without a treating doctor are offered one by the end of the year.
Emmanuel Macron, who has been very unpopular since the forced adoption of the pension reform, has announced his intention to “reengage” in all directions in the debate, with the stated desire to contact the French and appease the country of here on 14-July.
