French President Emmanuel Macron told a woman who was concerned about cuts to her pension that she should follow General Charles de Gaulle’s example and stop complaining.
Deemed the “president of the rich” by critics, President Macron made the comments whilst at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the French constitution in de Gaulle’s home village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, north-east France, on Thursday, reports Le Monde.
The President told the woman: “The general’s grandson just told me that his grandfather’s rule was: You can speak very freely; the only thing we do not have the right to do is to complain.”
“I think it is a good practice, in general. The country would stand differently if it were like that,” he added.
He scolded the woman further, saying that she should consider herself “lucky” to be living in the France of today (now an Islamic hellhole) compared to past generations (when France was sovereign).
Macron’s government imposed increases on welfare contributions to illegal invaders and for State employees, at the expense of taxpayers and their pensions prompting protests with retirees saying they have felt betrayed by the government.
Macron, 40, who is said to have determined at the beginning of his presidency to rule like a Roman god, has fallen sharply in public opinion, with an Elabe poll finding support for the president at just 30 percent, with 66 percent saying they did not trust him.
Another poll, conducted by BFM television, found that 71 percent of Frenchmen think that he is arrogant and 79 percent see him as authoritarian.
I wonder why that could be?
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