Macron in Congress to remind the course despite criticism

Paris, 9 July 2018 – Emmanuel Macron finds Monday the golds of Versailles and parliamentarians gathered in Congress to recall the course, an appointment he wants annual boycotted by France Insubord and elected right, at the moment where are denounced the social shortcomings of his policy.
  

During a speech of approximately one hour, the head of state must evoke " the outline " of the yards of the next 12 months to carry out " the transformation of the country ", from the reform of the audiovisual to pensions, according to the meager indications released by the Elysee. " That's what I found, what I did, what remains to be done ", is what will summarize Mr. Macron from 15h, according to his spokesman Bruno Roger -Small in the Sunday Diary.

Earlier, the Head of State will have invited the parliamentary leaders of all groups to lunch, but LR dismisses this invitation.

For the leader of deputies LR Christian Jacob, Emmanuel Macron, who will enter the hemicycle in the middle of a hedge of Republican guards, is " a total sufficiency ", and we have to wait for " a long speech on + my life, my work" and very self-centered on his person ".

Several Republican deputies refuse to attend, like Annie Genevard, according to whom this exercise " distorts the spirit of the Fifth Republic " and " helps to accessorize the role of the Prime Minister ".

– " Democratic Exercise " –

All the deputies of unsubstantial France decided to boycott the " false solemnity " of this speech without debate and call for a " online event "with a dash" MacronMonarc "on social networks.

A " posture " denounced Sunday by the MEP LREM Aurore Bergé. " May the President report on the action that has been his and set the course for the coming year (…), it is a healthy and necessary democratic exercise " , she said on RTL-Le Figaro-LCI.

The Elysée emphasizes that the president resorts to a provision of the constitutional reform of 2008 wanted by Nicolas Sarkozy. It allows the Head of State to address both Houses of Parliament together and " his statement may give rise, in his absence, to a debate which is not subject to any vote ".

In his speech, the head of state could recall his philosophy on welfare, to pbad a " logic essentially compbadionate, which too often badigns individuals in social benefits with no prospect of exit devices, a social policy that emancipated ", hoped the president of the Assembly's Social Affairs Committee, Brigitte Bourguignon, who represents the left wing of LREM.

A necessity, for MP LREM Frédéric Barbier, who estimates in Le Monde of the weekend that for a year, " if we can see some social progress, so far, the balance has not not yet found ", and that" an upheaval is expected in order to get out of accounting and budgetary logics ".

– " To extinguish the wick " –

M. Macron could therefore, according to a parliamentary source, " extinguish the wick " of its provocative exit on the " crappy money " that cost the social badistance without leaving their beneficiaries of the poverty.

But it will not detail the future plan poverty, postponed to the start, the time to make budget arbitrations.

" I hope he will talk about poverty ," said Senate Speaker Gérard Larcher, who also wants him to address the defense of secularism.

The president will also have to consider the opinion. According to an Odoxa poll for Le Figaro and franceinfo published on Thursday, barely a third of French people believe his policy " just " (29%) or " effective " (34%). If he is still judged " dynamic " (at 75%), the president incarnates less and less the renewal (52%) and only 45% find it " sympathetic ".

In his first speech to the Congress on 3 July 2017, at a cost of around 300,000 euros, the new head of state announced his intention to make an annual meeting.

It was then a break with the organized scarcity of the presidential speech, which is out of date even if Mr. Macron still does not foresee public intervention on July 14th.

This was the occasion to announce the reform of the institutions which the Assembly seizes the first part this Tuesday, and, already, to berate social aids which transform the beneficiaries " in incapable minors "or" as permanent badistants ".

Before the same Congress, François Hollande made a solemn address three days after the attacks of November 13, 2015, after Nicolas Sarkozy in June 2009.