Emmanuel Macron defended and presented his priorities before the Congress

In an unusual exercise, Emmanuel Macron made a public report to parliamentarians in Versailles and drew lines of work for his next months of government.

It is a common practice in many countries like the United States, the United Kingdom. United or more than Latin America, but in France only since 2008 the presidents report publicly on their task of government before Parliament. Only Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande did it before Emmanuel Macron, which explains why the parliamentarians of the France Insoumise of the far left and some members of the right-wing party Republicans did not attend the sumptuous staging at the Palace of Versailles

In his hour-and-a-half speech, President Macron began to talk in an abstract and almost metaphorical way about "Fears and anger" of the French by answering a poll published by the Sunday Journal this Sunday, July 8, in which the citizens evaluate it severely; especially in matters of security, employment and immigration.

"I did not forget your fears or anger that led our country here, they will not disappear in a day, but they will not disappear in a year," said the president, adding that "I know that I can not do everything, nor succeed at everything". Macron then took stock of this year and two months ahead of France, noting that parliamentarians "worked hard" and "worked urgently" without losing sight of "the mission that entrusted them", referring to several of their reforms approved or under discussion such as the Labor Code, the one that changes access to the university, the one that privatizes part of the railways, or the one that has integrated elements of the state of emergency in the Constitution to fight terrorism

Macron: "I do not like castes or rents"

Macron has tried to distance himself from the image of "president of the rich" who blamed him both right and left that "I do not like castes nor rents nor privileges" but the defense of 39, a "French way" which in its judgment combines economic and social progress. "If we want to share a cake, the first thing is to have a cake.And the companies that unite the shareholders, the leaders and the workers are the producers who make the cake, nobody else", was -He insists.

Macron then drew the outline of his work for next year. He promised that, in the coming weeks, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced several measures to achieve this because "there may be a low development of taxes or investments without decelerating state spending."

Macron wants to put an end to social determinism

A highlight of his speech was education: the "first pillar of social policy is an emancipation policy that frees social determinism "says Macron who boasted of having done" a lot "for education and announced the compulsory nature of school after three years.

Macron said that the next year will be to build the provident state of the 21st century to be "emancipatory, efficient and responsible". It will rely on a "new social contract", which will be discussed on July 17 with unions and businessmen of the Elysee. The reforms of unemployment insurance, education, pensions and dependency will be badyzed. In addition, a plan to fight against poverty will be announced in September and put into practice next year with special support "for the most fragile". With regard to secularism, Macron emphasizes that "the Republic has no reason to have problems with Islam or with any other religion. "" In the autumn, we will clarify this situation by giving Islam a framework and rules to ensure that it will be exercised everywhere in accordance with the laws of the Republic, we will do it with the Muslim confessors and their representatives, "he said.

On terrorism coming from radical sectors of Islam, the president explained that" the work must remain feverish and relentless, since it is the work of a generation "and promised that" new decisions will be made "

Macron:" the true European border is what separates the progressives and the nationalists "

Finally, on the sensitive issue of migration, the president specified that "France will never accept deportations to Europe" migrants 19659003] "France will never accept easy solutions of some people who are now proposing deportations through the To get there and I do not know which camp inside or outside their borders to foreigners "He also insisted that" the real frontier "in Europe is what separates the "progressives" and the "nationalists".

"The crisis we are going through tells us that Europe's badizes, the Europe of drowsiness is over," he said.

First update: 07/09 / 2018