PANDEMIC YELLOW VESTS

"WE REVIEW VERY AVERAGE TIMES"

ACCORDING TO EMMANUEL MACRON

In an interview with the magazine Zadig , the Head of State expands on the health crisis experienced by all for a year and a half and comparable, according to him, to the period of the Middle Ages. One year before the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron says he is "very confident" for the future.

If a year and a half after its appearance, the epidemic is still not absorbed, vaccination gives a glimmer of hope and allows politicians to draw the first lessons. In an interview with the magazine Zadig, the president also spoke about this epidemic and its consequences on French society. “This pandemic is the metaphor of our time.

We relive times with a very medieval background: the great jacqueries, the great epidemics, the great fears ... ", considers Emmanuel Macron, going further:" It was the time of great fears, of phenomena which forged a people, I would even say of the reinvention of a civilization. It is also a time of tensions that are affecting the country ”.

With the "yellow vests", "we rediscovered violence

Speaking of returning to a medieval era, the president also alludes to the yellow vests crisis, which preceded that of the Covid and which gave rise to demonstrations for several months on roundabouts and in the big cities of France. According to him, the social movement marked “a return of violence in society”, “one of the fundamentals of our old country, made up of jacqueries.” “We have rediscovered violence. Political and militant violence had existed for several years in our democracy, with the return of the black blocks in European demonstrations and then in France in 2016. With the 'yellow vests', it is a return of violence in society . We find one of the fundamentals of our return of violence in society. We find one of the fundamentals of our old country,made of jacqueries. "If no politician has been able to anticipate the formation of this protest movement, which will last nearly a year, Emmanuel Macron explains that he was not" surprised at what was happening ", seeing in the French" a very resistant ”but which“ flares up with anger ”.

France is not "an addition of minorities or resentments".

"France is a daily will, it is not a fixed identity", affirms Emmanuel Macron about "African immigration". "We must say to these men and women: you who are there by the cruelties of history, by the will of your grandparents, your parents or your own, you are a chance for our country" . In Seine-Saint-Denis, “all that's missing is the sea to make California”. And to praise the merits of 93: "I am going to describe to you, asking you to close your eyes, the youngest department in France, with two international airports, the most important French sports stadium and the largest number of start-ups. -up per capita. The only thing missing is the sea to make California… ”, assures the President of the Republic. According to him,Seine-Saint-Denis is at the same time "a lung", "a unique space of economic and social transformation" is a department where "all the French weaknesses are concentrated". It is in particular “the only place where we have assumed to be a country of immigration, which integrates, which raises the children born here as elsewhere.” “Our country needs, to live serenely, to build a story common and to take actions recognizing all these lives, all these memories ”, assures the President of the Republic.to build a common narrative and to take actions recognizing all these lives, all these memories ”, assures the President of the Republic.to build a common narrative and to take actions recognizing all these lives, all these memories ”, assures the President of the Republic.

The reform of the ENA is also mentioned, the Head of State defending it at all costs: “France's disease is not bureaucracy or centralism but corporatism. That is to say, interests that protect the inter-self. The ENA has allowed corporatisms to reconstitute themselves. ”According to him, it is necessary to“ select differently ”for the senior civil service because“ when one comes from a working-class background, and even more when one comes from the immigration, it takes five to six generations to reach even the middle of the social scale. It is enormous and, to be honest, discouraging. ”An ordinance must come to ratify the reform this Wednesday, May 26, replacing prestigious school ofadministration by the Public Service Institute (ISP) on January 1, 2022 while providing guarantees of independence to outgoing senior officials.

Emmanuel Macron also underlines the urgency to respond to the feeling of “dropping out” of a part of the population who expresses “the same concern about deindustrialisation, a feeling of injustice, an impression of democratic betrayal”.

In this long interview of twenty pages, devoted to "his vision of France" and the "carnal relationship" he maintains with the country, the Head of State assures him of having confidence in the future and the ability to recover. after a health and social crisis of this magnitude. “If we have collective energy and a vision, we will move forward. I think that we have the possibility of it ", estimates it, evoking" the capacity to embrace the future, to project (...) then decisive for the rebound which the country takes ". One year before the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron therefore displays a certain optimism, saying he has "the foreknowledge that we have this strength and this inspiration in us" and believes "a lot in the inspiration of the French people".