PARIS, April 1 — President Emmanuel Macron’s drive to ram through legislation raising France’s retirement age despite mass protests is creating rifts between ministers and...
PARIS, April 1 — President Emmanuel Macron’s drive to ram through legislation raising France’s retirement age despite mass protests is creating rifts between ministers and his allies amid frustration that the government has not resolved the standoff, insiders say.
No minister has publicly broken rank on the pensions reform or the government’s approach to its delivery, but sources close to Macron’s camp say that behind the scenes government officials and lawmakers are engaged in a damaging blame-game and infighting as some no longer bother to hide frustrations.
While fiercely criticised by oppositions parties as undemocratic, the move has also sat uneasily with some lawmakers in Macron’s Renaissance party and its allies, after some of them have seen protesters vandalise their offices in their constituencies. Not even a year into his second five-year term, Macron has failed to shake off his image among voters as an aloof CEO of a rarefied elite deaf to the common people’s concerns.
“Are there lawmakers who have regrets, yes, she continued to see them, to reunite them to get past this episode,” the official said. Meanwhile, sources in the government’s inner circle downplay the growing dissonance as a normal side-effect when tensions mount, but also acknowledge the situation is critical.
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