Macron tries to turn the page on pension reform row in TV address
In a 15-minute recorded televised address to the nation on Monday evening, French President Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity ratings have plummeted amid his widely contested reform of the state pension system, which he promulgated on Saturday, promised he would introduce new measures to improve working conditions and public services in what some observers regarded as a limp attempt to re-launch his troubled, final presidential term.
EmmanuelEmmanuel Macron has said he has heard the public’s anger over his contested pension reform which has sparked three months of protests but insisted once again the measure was necessary, reports The Guardian.
