Winning back public opinion: this is the objective of Emmanuel Macron, who is going to Normandy on Monday to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey and the 79ᵉ anniversary of D-Day on Tuesday. But the sequence of retreats will never be far from the Head of State during his visit.
Does Emmanuel Macron want to take advantage of the calendar to deliver a message to opponents of his pension reform? The Head of State is expected in Normandy this afternoon for two major events: the 1,000th anniversary of the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey on Monday and the 79ᵉ anniversary of D-Day on Tuesday.
At the foot of Mont-Saint-Michel, which has become the busiest site in the country outside Île-de-France, Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech on the permanence and resilience of France in the face of the elements. Qualities that are also useful in politics, particularly in recent months for the head of state, who has become the target of a major challenge with the pension reform.
A welcome move
The Élysée spins the metaphor by insisting on the history of Mont-Saint-Michel, built by “a conquering and builder people, also a symbol of the Catholic heritage of eternal France”. The trip will continue tomorrow with a tribute to the soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, but also to the heroes of the Resistance, while the legacy of the National Rally is being debated again. The exit of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in an interview with the JDD describing Marine le Pen’s party as “Inheriting Pétain”. A statement that reacted to the top of the state, Emmanuel Macron not hesitating to reframe it during a Council of Ministers.
A trip in homage to heritage therefore, a unifying theme in public opinion and welcome after a sequence which saw the president again be accused of fracturing society. But the pension reform will not be far away since, at the same time, the 14ᵉ day of mobilization against the text, promulgated on April 15 by Emmanuel Macron, will take place everywhere in France.
Source: Europe1
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