**”Saucepans will not allow France to move forward,” Macron said, in response to protestors banging pots and pans.**
French President Emmanuel Macron was loudly booed by crowds in eastern France Wednesday, April 19, as he embarked on his first domestic trip outside of the capital since signing his unpopular pensions reform into law.
Locals in Selestat in the Alsace region chanted slogans including “Macron resign!” while he was personally heckled by several people present, including one man who accused him of having a “corrupt government”. Asked by a journalist how he felt, the president replied: “I have had it worse.”
Police pushed back dozens of protesters banging kitchenware earlier in the day ahead of the president’s arrival in the eastern village of Muttersholtz in the Alsace region. Pot-bashing, a form of protest with a long history in France, began during Macron’s address to the nation on Monday evening after he signed the bill into law over the weekend.
“Saucepans will not allow France to move forward,” Macron said as he visited a wood factory in the village. “The reality across the country is not just those making noise with pans or grumbling. You will always see me with people… I have to keep going,” he added.
The president made very few public appearances to speak to voters during the three months after announcing the deeply unpopular pension reform, whose flagship measure is hiking the retirement age from 62 to 64. Political opponents and trade unions have urged protesters to maintain their campaign against the law and called for a new day of mass protest on May 1.
Bet he wishes he was back in China where the hand-picked crowd was treating him like a God.
Only booed? No one threw eggs, milkshakes, or guillotines at him?
say what you will but this pension reform should have been done decades ago. He didn’t go the easy route and pushed this issue to his successors. He campaigned that he will increase the age for a pension and he did it.
He is by far the best politician on the European Continent. Zelenskyy aside.
He should do an IMA here, he’s treated like a North Korean leader on this sub. I can’t wait to hear about his golf scores.
Not surprised nobody wants to talk to him in his own country, that’s why he needs to ring Putin and Chinese to not feel lonely
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**”Saucepans will not allow France to move forward,” Macron said, in response to protestors banging pots and pans.**
French President Emmanuel Macron was loudly booed by crowds in eastern France Wednesday, April 19, as he embarked on his first domestic trip outside of the capital since signing his unpopular pensions reform into law.
Locals in Selestat in the Alsace region chanted slogans including “Macron resign!” while he was personally heckled by several people present, including one man who accused him of having a “corrupt government”. Asked by a journalist how he felt, the president replied: “I have had it worse.”
Police pushed back dozens of protesters banging kitchenware earlier in the day ahead of the president’s arrival in the eastern village of Muttersholtz in the Alsace region. Pot-bashing, a form of protest with a long history in France, began during Macron’s address to the nation on Monday evening after he signed the bill into law over the weekend.
“Saucepans will not allow France to move forward,” Macron said as he visited a wood factory in the village. “The reality across the country is not just those making noise with pans or grumbling. You will always see me with people… I have to keep going,” he added.
The president made very few public appearances to speak to voters during the three months after announcing the deeply unpopular pension reform, whose flagship measure is hiking the retirement age from 62 to 64. Political opponents and trade unions have urged protesters to maintain their campaign against the law and called for a new day of mass protest on May 1.
**Read the article here:** [**https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2023/04/19/macron-hits-the-road-dismisses-pot-bashing-protests_6023484_5.html**](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2023/04/19/macron-hits-the-road-dismisses-pot-bashing-protests_6023484_5.html)
Bet he wishes he was back in China where the hand-picked crowd was treating him like a God.
Only booed? No one threw eggs, milkshakes, or guillotines at him?
say what you will but this pension reform should have been done decades ago. He didn’t go the easy route and pushed this issue to his successors. He campaigned that he will increase the age for a pension and he did it.
He is by far the best politician on the European Continent. Zelenskyy aside.
He should do an IMA here, he’s treated like a North Korean leader on this sub. I can’t wait to hear about his golf scores.
Not surprised nobody wants to talk to him in his own country, that’s why he needs to ring Putin and Chinese to not feel lonely
I bet he’s missing China
He totally did not have it coming.
We all hate him.