The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has banned the transport of pots and sound elements during trips to the Ganges, in the south of the country, for prevent the French from protesting against the pension reform.
For him “pots and eggs are for the kitchen”, when pots became the symbol of protest against reforms in France.
The head of state has not only angered 70 percent of the French, who according to polls have lost faith in him. His policy towards China and his appeal to President Xi Jinping for help to end the war in Ukraine it infuriated the United States and its European allies.
He has not consulted his diplomats, a body he dissolved last year, nor his own foreign minister, Catherine Colonna, former spokeswoman for Jacques Chirac and former ambassador to London.
Macron keeps his diplomats in the dark about his projects to promote European sovereignty and differentiate from the United States against his policies towards China and Ukraine and his intention not to put pressure on the Chinese on Taiwan. French diplomats react “alarmed” at its meaning and implications.
diplomatic anger
Macron’s diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne is expected to hold diplomatic talks this summer with Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat.
Bonne will repeat Macron’s message to his interlocutor: that China must put pressure on Russia to end the war. Just like the declassified Pentagon documents show that China is secretly arming Russia.
The strategic “dialogue”, initiated by Macron during his visit to China to meet Xi Jinping, will continue after the conclusion of the French head of state’s visit to Beijing.
according to the newspaper the worldhis seduction of the Chinese regime, his declaration that Europe must avoid following Washington’s policies on Taiwan he stunned his European partners and the Quai d’Orsay, his foreign ministry, in the midst of the war in Ukraine.
French diplomats confessed the world that Macron keeps them “isolated” while he continues to carry out his diplomatic policy from the Elysée, with a small group of advisers.
“The president does what he wants and people are tired of picking up the pieces,” said one diplomat the world.
Another said the foreign minister was “fasting” over Macron’s comments that the European Union should avoid adopting US positions on Taiwan as he returned from his visit to China.
He winks at Xi Jinping
His statements suggest that the president is trying to please China in Taiwan, in exchange for Xi Jinping getting a peace deal in Kiev.
“The United States and its allies must race to match the Chinese war machine,” according to US Admiral John Aquilino, the top Indo-Pacific commander.
He believes that “Xi Jinping is preparing the longest and most extensive military construction since World War II, both in the conventional and strategic fields.” He added that “the strategic partnership between Xi and President Putin has no limits”, specifying it Russia is shipping highly enriched uranium to Beijing develop weapons with plutonium. Before the end of the decade, China could have a thousand nuclear warheads.
Pots against the president
Hundreds of people gathered in the Ganges in southern France on Thursday on the sidelines of a trip by the French head of state to protest against pension reform.
Pots have become a symbol of opposition to pension reform and the President of the Republic. On a trip to the Ganges, in the Hérault, Macron hinted at the possibility of meeting the protesters, “if people are willing to talk”. The president would present his educational reform to teachers and students.
“If it’s just for eggs and casseroles, it’s for cooking,” he joked during an exchange with LFI MP Sébastien Rome.
In the city center of Ganges, especially in the town hall square, a noisy welcoming committee awaited Macron. Protesters opposed to pension reform, in particular, threw eggs and potatoes.
In addition, a prefectural decree was issued in the municipality which forbade “the use of portable sound devices”. If the casseroles are not specifically mentioned, upon entering the town, the gendarmes opened the sacks and forbade them.
Since Emmanuel Macron’s speech on Monday, protesters have started banging pots to show their opposition to the head of state’s policy. On his first trip to Alsace, at the beginning of these 100 days to get the country off the ground, he replied that “pans won’t help France advance”.
In the southern town of Perols this Thursday, a resident yelled “Macron resign” at him. The president replied: “I have no intention of resigning. I assure you. This won’t happen. We will have to wait until 2027”.
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Source: Clarin
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