“Maybe the mistake was that I wasn’t present enough,” he said in an online chat with readers of Le Parisien newspaper this evening
French President Emmanuel Macron he admitted that he should have been more “involved” in championing pension reform while protests continue.
Since January, after the plan to raise the retirement age to 64 was presented, the French president has been closed in the Elysee Palace and made few trips inside the country.
“Maybe the mistake it was that I wasn’t present enough,” he told one online chat of with readers of the newspaper Le Parisien, this evening. “I have to re-engage in the public debate because there are some things that are not clear. And I do, everywhere,” he added.
Macron is trying to turn the page in the reform crisis of the pension, but in almost all his movements in France he is confronted by angry protesters. In addition to the demonstrations organized by the unions, there are also spontaneous “concerts” with pots almost every day. And the protesters do not hesitate to shout at him “Macron, resign”.
The “anger” expressed by the French “it won’t stop me from continuing to tour”the president assured last week.
According to a poll by the Ifop institute for the Journal du Dimanche newspaper, almost three out of four French people say unhappy with Macrossn, whose popularity has fallen to 26%.
Source :Skai
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