Economy

2023-06-26 18:10:40

In Marseille, where the unemployment rate, much higher than the national average, is around 10%, Emmanuel Macron’s little sentence does not pass. Visiting the Marseille city for three days, the President of the Republic did not wait until the last day to release a reply of which he has the secret. “I promise you: I’m going around the Old Port this evening with you, I’m sure there are ten job offers”, dropped the president to a worried Marseillaise who had just challenged him on Monday , under the blazing sun hitting the city of Campanules.

In front of the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture, where around a hundred demonstrators gathered, the short sentence immediately provoked the anger of the unions. “Emmanuel Macron is a provocateur at heart who provokes provocation following provocation, annoys Franck Bergamini, secretary general of the departmental union of Force Ouvrière in the Bouches-du-Rhône. It’s at least ideological to consider that you can find ten jobs like that in one day, otherwise it means that all the unemployed are voluntarily unemployed. »

“He is going to see one of my collaborators”

The sentence was dropped by Emmanuel Macron, between two handshakes alongside the sector deputy, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, longtime friend of the Macron couple. A mother had just explained that her 33-year-old son no longer receives the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) and is struggling to find work. “When I was younger, I said that you had to cross the street, launches the president, in reference to his famous sentence of 2018. It is even more true today than yesterday. »

Stressing that there are “help devices” to “go to work”, the president then continued: “What does your son want to work in? (…) He is ready to work as a waiter? (…) You are not going to make me believe that, if he is really looking for a job in Marseille, and that he is ready to take a job as a waiter, that there is no job as a waiter. “And the head of head of state to promise:” He will see one of my collaborators. Tonight (Monday), he has an appointment for a job. »

Macron accused of “contempt for the people” by LFI

“Tomorrow, I will gladly accompany him to the Old Port if he wants! He will not find a qualified job. We wonder if, like a child, he is not testing our limits to find out how far he can go, further comments Franck Bergamini. But don’t try too hard. At some point, there may be problems, especially in a city like Marseille! And it’s always the same: it depends on what you mean by work! »

“Does he at least know the situation of workers in the restaurants of the Old Port, sighs for her part Jessica Jadé, spokesperson for the departmental union of the CGT in the Bouches-du-Rhône. There is turnover, precarious work, people who last one or two seasons and then it’s over! »

“The only unemployed person we hope for is Emmanuel Macron”

And the little sentence reacted well beyond Marseille. “The solution to unemployment? Crossing a street in 2018. Doing one meter in May 2023. The time has come to take a tour of the Old Port in June 2023. Faced with the contempt of the people, the only unemployed person hoped for in the country is Emmanuel Macron,” LFI MP Mathilde Panot posted on Twitter. “The formula changes, the contempt remains,” added the patron saint of green deputies Cyrielle Chatelain.

The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure drew an ironic parallel with the recent posting of ex-minister Christophe Castaner: “What Macron says is not false. The last time, even without making the rounds, he appointed his former Minister of the Interior, president of the great maritime port of Marseilles. »

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