President Emmanuel Macron will look to 'calm things down' with a televised interview on Wednesday amid growing anger across France over his plans to raise the retirement age, a source close to the centrist president said.
French President Emmanuel Macron will participate in a televised interview to try to calm protest action over pension reforms. These will be Macron's first public remarks on the matter since the bill was pushed through last week.
The question is whether Macron can achieve this. Advisers indicated the 12:00 GMT interview would not contain any major policy announcements. Garbage bins and barricades were set ablaze in spontaneous protests in Paris and elsewhere in France in a sixth night of scuffles with police. Francois Bayrou, a veteran politician in Macron's camp, told Franceinfo radio that Macron's interview needed both to stress the need for the pension changes and to look towards the future.Macron, who will break his silence after weeks of leaving Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in the front-line, wants to get back on the front foot and has asked leaders in his camp for ideas, a source which took part in meetings on Tuesday said.
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