More generally, before October 17, social anger was underestimated by the intelligence services, he recognized. Emmanuel Macron urged professional sectors which still have income below the minimum wage to carry out salary negotiations, in response to citizen mobilization for purchasing power.
Emmanuel Macron finally hoped, given the fact that young people have been heard, that they can resume classes, that calm returns and that we can reopen these high schools in good conditions, while the high school crisis has been going on for weeks.
He insisted on the need to have much more clarity on the choice criteria, to obtain feedback on the choices and to be able to reopen classes where there is the most tension.
He stressed that there was good cooperation last Saturday in real time.
He conceded that he should have gone faster, himself first, to respond to the anger of high school students. He also claimed the creation of places in higher education, increasing from 2.5 million in 2017 to around 3 million currently.
According to a CGT study cited on Wednesday, 122 branches still offer at least one salary level below the minimum wage, a finding that it considers to be part of the areas of effort.