Emmanuel Macron is trying to turn the page on the disputed pension reform. After the presentation by Elisabeth Borne of a “100-day” roadmap on April 26, 2023, the president is starting new legislative projects. To clarify his projects, Emmanuel Macron gave an interview to the magazine Challenges in which he made several important announcements on the next steps of his five-year term. What are they ?
This Thursday, May 11, the Head of State receives 150 business leaders and parliamentarians in the village hall of the Elysée Palace to present his new ambition for France: reindustrialization, “the mother of battles” according to him. According to Emmanuel Macron, “the relationship with industry is a good part of the explanation of the French evil […] Reindustrializing means creating purchasing power, financing our social model, providing solutions to the ecological transition , building a future for our children, attracting innovation and talent from all sectors.”
Concretely, it will be a question of “putting in place hypersimplified procedures to accelerate industrial establishments and halve the delays, reinvest more in turnkey sites, reinforce the use of industrial wasteland…” If reindustrialization is presented as the solution to many ills, what will be the other major projects to come? What will be the applications?
While the project promises to be large and the presidential camp does not have a majority in the National Assembly, Emmanuel Macron declares himself ready to reform the State. “We are now going to open several new projects: the simplification on which we have not gone far enough, the deconcentration to restore muscle in our public service. We also have a problem of clarification, all public administrations combined”, details -t- it for Challenges.
The ambitions of the president, imprecise, question. In the current tense context, Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, judges on France Inter that “it does not seem to me a climate conducive to a profound revision of our institutions […] We must be very careful with our institutions and not necessarily modify them in a brutal or massive way”. How does Emmanuel Macron plan to reform the Fifth Republic? While waiting to further clarify his project, he lists other of his ambitions to our colleagues from Challenges.
“At the same time, we will continue to reform. Higher education, green industry, energy… The agenda is full. For some subjects we do not need a law, for others when a law is necessary we will build a majority”, list Emmanuel Macron to our colleagues from Challenges. The large number of projects to come and the short time to launch them raise questions. “The main thing is to stay the course.” But what is it?
During the presidential address of April 17, the opposition had already expressed concern. For the president of the Republicans Eric Ciotti, the new sites are “a catalog of pious wishes without the slightest questioning.” According to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of rebellious France, “his second wind, his new start has failed”.
The difficulty of finding the right way to revive the political debate and turn the page on pensions is perfectly exemplified by the immigration bill. In search of support, the Borne government decided to review its bill and propose a text in July. See you in 100 days.
