After the speech, the pitch. Emmanuel Macron is going to Bas-Rhin on Wednesday for a trip on the theme of reindustrialization. The head of state is expected in the small Alsatian town of Muttersholtz, the Elysée announced on Tuesday. He will visit the Mathis company there, specializing in wooden construction and working on several sites for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, said the Elysée.
The wood sector is particularly involved in the decarbonization of the building sector. It is “a strategic sector of this reindustrialization of the country supported by the government”, added the presidency. The inter-union has already called in a press release for a rally at noon in Muttersholtz, asking the demonstrators to bring pans or lids to “better be heard” and show that “the pensions page is far from be turned”.
Trip to Hérault on Thursday
After having promulgated at the beginning of the weekend the very disputed reform on the 64 years, President Macron gave himself Monday, during a solemn address, one hundred days to relaunch his second five-year term, mired in the political and social crisis. Among the priority projects that he wants to initiate by July 14, that of a “new pact for life at work” to be negotiated with the social partners, and that of “progress” in public services such as the education or health.
Thursday, he must also continue with another trip, in the Hérault, devoted to school. According to several macronist sources, he could on this occasion make announcements on the remuneration of teachers.
Several members of the executive or the presidential entourage encouraged Emmanuel Macron to reconnect with the French on the ground after three months spent largely in withdrawal at the Élysée. “It is important” that he makes trips to the territories like Wednesday, said on France 3 Alsace his Minister of Transport Clément Beaune, rejoicing that he “can be on the ground”, “in contact”, to “hear a certain number of these demands too”.