To win, you have to convince, they say. You also have to adapt, thinks Emmanuel Macron. Monday, April 11, to hope to win the second round of the presidential election, on April 24, against his far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen, the Head of State gave in on the most abrasive and most symbolic of his possible next five-year term.
Raising the retirement age to 65 is no longer a “dogma”assured the Head of State from Carvina small town in Pas-de-Calais, during his first campaign trip. “I have no dogma except that of not letting poverty take hold and not leaving our children the cost of our cowardice”he insisted, saying to himself “open to discussion”.
In detail, Emmanuel Macron is ready to change the ” pace “ and ” terminals “ provided for in the reform and“not exclude” Referendum. The retirement age could be gradually raised by setting a “review clause” at age 64. Initially, the Head of State intended to push it back each year by three to four months to reach this threshold of 65 years.
“I am ready to make a reform that does not go until 2030 if we feel too much anxiety among people”he conceded. “It can be smart because I hear people, like you, [notamment] the lady earlier who yelled at me”he added, referring to a woman who had welcomed him to the small town by holding up a sign “No to retirement at 65”. “You have to start from the real to go to the ideal”he summed up, philosopher, quoting Jean Jaurès, during an interview given to the news channel BFMTV from the Bellevue café on the square bearing the name of the founder of the Socialist Party.
Composing with the electorate of Jean-Luc Mélenchon
A few hours wandering around the land dotted with settlements, tormented by deindustrialization and mass unemployment, will therefore have been enough for the Head of State to resign himself to the ” real “ and notes that the subject of pensions was a “twist point” able to jeopardize his victory on April 24.
Arrived at the top of the ballot, Sunday, with 27.84% votes against 23.15% for Marine Le Pen, the tenant of the Elysee Palace knows that he must deal with what has become the third political force in the country: the left radical Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Bordering on the selection in the second round with 21.95% of the vote, the leader of La France insoumise called on his voters not to give “no voice to Marine Le Pen”.
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