100 days – that’s how long French President Macron gave himself to calm the situation in the country. His Prime Minister Borne has now presented an agenda intended to put an end to the pension protests.
Attack is the best form of defence: French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne should realize that have said. Because she bombarded the citizens with announcements in her speech on the 100-day program. It was about work, climate change, public service and the republican order, as well as a special look at Europe, youth and the environment.
“For the next three months, I would like to implement the commitments that the President of the Republic has made more quickly,” announced Borne. “What we say, we do. We will move forward.” This marching plan responds directly to the concerns and expectations of the French. “What are our compatriots demanding today? Concrete solutions, life-changing actions, answers to the great challenges of our time.”
3000 billion euros national debt
This comes by mid-May, that by mid-June: a new pact for working life, a law for green industry. Electricity and gas price caps are to remain in place, teachers will receive up to 500 euros more in salary, and new measures against cyberbullying will be introduced.
Borne also promised more regional healthcare solutions and 6,000 new medical assistants, 200 more gendarmerie brigades and a new police force on the Italian border. In addition, 10,000 new posts for judicial officers are to be created, a dormitory plan for students, and, and, and… There is a cornucopia of measures – and that with a government debt of around 3000 billion euros.
immigration law will be postponed
All of these announcements are formulated in the confident future – the future simple. However, Borne left it open how she intends to find one for each of the 600,000 chronically ill people in the country without a doctor by the end of the year. And her speech also contained an oath of disclosure: The new immigration law will not come until autumn. You don’t have a majority yet. Borne said that was not due to his own camp or his own politics, but to the conservative Les Républicains, whose deputies and senators did not agree.
Devastating polls for Macron
During the course of the day, President Emmanuel Macron wants to make 70 “strong announcements about the handicap”, i.e. for people with disabilities. It is questionable whether that will be enough to win back the French – even if everything really happened that way. Because the latest polls show that a large majority of people in France consider their president to be worrying, unsympathetic, contemptuous, arrogant and even authoritarian.