Macron wants to continue his tax cut, and "move forward" on national issues

"We must move forward, build a system of responsibility, with all the political and union forces," insisted the head of state, who will also speak Monday evening during an interview at 20 p.m. on TF1.

"We must continue a trajectory of lower taxation on our middle classes to (...) restore credibility to work", argued the resident of the Elysée in his interview with Opinion.

"Today, we help a lot people who are in disarray, who have dropped out. We help low salaries a lot, and we have done more with the activity bonus", continued the head of state, unpopular. after the forced adoption of the pension reform and which is trying to regain control.

"The taxation of middle class income is too high and is accelerating too quickly. It crushes purchasing power gains between 1.500 and 2.500 euros," he said. On the business side, he believes that France should equip itself with "a mechanism which makes it possible to improve industrial jobs or the jobs of craftsmen and traders".

Engaged for several days in a sequence focused on reindustrialization, he criticized the downgrading of France's rating by the Fitch agency which "is deeply mistaken in its political analysis".

"Had I decided to give up the pension reform, I would have understood these fears. But we have demonstrated that we know how to pass a lot of laws with this majority", he hammered.

The pension file not "classified"

Regarding another sensitive issue, that of immigration, the Head of State said he did not believe in the possibility of a referendum in the event of failure of the debates to come in Parliament, for constitutional reasons.

The executive and the right are each seeking to take control on this subject. Elisabeth Borne has asked Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin to relaunch "consultations" for a bill, with a view to parliamentary examination in the fall.

The Republicans will participate but intend to launch soon a legislative process on two texts from their ranks, with the ambition of imposing a text harder than the copy of the executive.

"There will be a starting bet from the government", insisted Emmanuel Macron, calling for "a moment of clarification", targeting LR, and citing "ecologists" and "socialists" as possible interlocutors during the negotiations.

"We will look at how we can enrich it, complete it, modify it, perhaps abandon bits, in order to build a majority," he said.

Scanning several national issues, the president defended the "teacher pact" but also assumed that he did not want to "wake up old conflicts" on the school, after the presentation on Thursday of a plan significantly less ambitious than expected by the minister. Pap Ndiaye on social and school diversity.

Regarding the pension reform, he ruled that the file was not "classified", because of the provisions censored by the Constitutional Council, in particular on the employment of seniors.

He also regretted that his camp had "failed to sufficiently explain the need for this reform", a few weeks before the consideration in the Assembly of a proposal to repeal the reform carried by the independent group Liot .

He depicted this critical day of June 8 as an opportunity for his majority to "explain" the bill, calling on the opposition to "a debate where everyone will have to take responsibility and explain how we finance".