France continues to strike, tense, angry and the popularity of President Emmanuel Macron suffers He is paying a heavy price for pension reform and violent protests.
The president’s confidence in the French has worsened over the past two months and should worry him. The percentage of French people who don’t trust him has decreased from 57% to 70%.with the strike in between.
But worst of all is the rise of those who “don’t trust him at all.” Now I’m at 50% (+9 points in one month).
We have to go back to the “yellow vest” crisis to see such a high rate against the Head of State: 57% in April 2018. The record, held by François Hollande, has certainly not yet been surpassed (60% in 2015).
Regime crisis?
Political crisis or regime crisis? It’s a valid question for the French when polls show that Macron it has no political power implement the reforms or with a parliamentary majority.
How can Emmanuel Macron continue to carry out his reforms when he can no longer count only on their support? Among the Republicans, among whom he hopes to find allies to form a more stable majority, only 26% (-17) trust him.
Elisabeth Borne, his prime minister, it doesn’t help. His confidence index fell by 6 points after the application of article 49.3 of the Constitution, to the National Assembly, to approve the pension reform.
Has the government changed as the unions ask? If you were to decide to change Matignon’s tenant, three ministers float: Bruno Le Maire, the current economy minister, Gabriel Attal, public action minister and former spokesman, and Olivier Véran, former health minister during the Covid , neurologist and now government spokesman.
the extremes advance
Fear in this crisis let the extremes roll out. The crisis allows the extreme right to grow with Marine Le Pen, and the extreme left of Jean Luc Mélenchon of unsubmissive France, wants to declare itself the “tribune of the republic” if the former National Front advances.
The third step is taken by the president of the National Group, as the former National Front has been renamed. Those who doubted that the RN knew how to take advantage of the crisis resulting from the pension reform has an answer: Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella advance. Marine Le Pen is not far from the first place! It grew 6%.
Another very French phenomenon. The Communist Party’s strategy seems more profitable than that of France Insumisa. His boss, Fabien Roussel, advances and now dismisses Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The latter is even surpassed by what could be a rival in the 2027 presidential race, François Ruffin.
booed
With France in new strikes, the head of state wants to keep the promised announcements.
When France faces a brutal drought, which anticipates a very dramatic availability of water for the summer, Emmanuel Macron announced the “water plan” in Savines Le Lac, in the Hautes Alpes, on the shores of Lake Serre Poncon. A long-awaited plan given the lack of water and global warming.
When he arrived by helicopter he was greeted by angry protesters who booed him.
The Head of State, accompanied by his Minister for Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, first addressed a few words to the press.
When asked about the social crisis surrounding the pension reform, Macron judged that the challenge “doesn’t mean everything has to stop”.
Regarding the violence observed last weekend in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), Emmanuel Macron said that the police attacked “thousands of people who simply They had come to war.”
Water and ecowatt
On the Ecowatt model for energy, Emmanuel Macron announced the establishment of an “Ecowatt of water” at the beginning of May. This tool “will allow everyone to be responsible”, according to the Head of State. This device will allow “to know the actions to be taken and the situation of the water”.
“We will ask every sector a water sobriety plan for the summer”, Emmanuel Macron also announced.
“In the coming days, the ministers will meet the different sectors: tourism, culture,” he said. Communities will also be mobilized, “and state buildings will be equipped with rainwater harvesting mechanisms and agri-efficient equipment,” she said.
“Beyond the emergency and the short term, the heart of the water plan, with its fifty measures, is above all a plan for sobriety and efficiency over time,” said Emmanuel Macron.
The goal announced by the president is by 2030 “to save 10% of water in all sectors”. The Head of State has listed five main areas of work: “accelerate sobriety everywhere and over time”, “fight losses”, “invest in wastewater reuse”, “support the transformation of our model of agriculture” and “implement water pricing everywhere”.
“We must establish a progressive and authorizing price for water,” said Emmanuel Macron. “That doesn’t mean that the price of water will go up,” he stressed, however. In detail, «the first m3 are invoiced at a reasonable price, close to the cost price. It’s the water we all need. Beyond a certain level, the price per m3 will be higher”, explained the Head of State.
The agricultural sector
“Are today’s sectors still fit for tomorrow’s climate? We have to ask ourselves this question,” Emmanuel Macron challenged again. The Head of State signals the evidence of development for some territories, “other cultural models”. “We will have to reinvent agricultural models in our Republic”.
To do this, it promises aid of 30 million euros to farmers to apply “intelligent systems” for the use of water, such as “drip”. The plan also aims to maximize water retention in the soil, with “more hedges and more trees where possible”, as well as “new works”.
As for the artificial storage of water for farmers, Emmanuel Macron insisted, alluding to the opposition to mega-reservoirs such as Sainte-Soline, in including these projects in a “clear” framework. “It’s not about privatizing water!” he said.
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Source: Clarin
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