Emmanuel Macron continued his three-day trip on Tuesday as part of Act II of the “Marseille en grand” plan. With, on the program, new announcements on health and housing.
For his second day under the scorching sun of Marseille, Emmanuel Macron devoted himself to two major issues in Marseille, schools and access to health. The Head of State made new announcements on Tuesday, June 27, took a walkabout in the middle of children in the northern districts, and exchanged with wounded soldiers. France 3 Provence-Alpes looks back on the highlights of this new marathon day.
Summer school holidays in Macron’s sights
Visiting the construction site of the Saint-André school in the city of Castellane, a priority district of the 16th arrondissement, the Head of State said he wanted “reopen” the debate on school time over the year to reduce inequalities between families, “one of the other great French hypocrisies”, according his. “When you have a three-month vacation, inequality returns”, he insisted. Emmanuel Macron takes the example of Germany, which frees up more time in the year for extra-curricular activities and sports in the afternoon. “We have to think about it in the interest of the child and no longer in the interest of the economy or in certain societal imperatives which forget the well-being of the child”, reacted on Tuesday on franceinfo Grégoire Ensel, president of the FCPE, Federation of parent-teacher councils. But the president of the first federation of parents wants to “pull out a huge ball and ask for means so that there are adults in front of the children”.
Emmanuel Macron also drew an enthusiastic assessment of the “innovative” schools being tested in Marseille. Endowed with an envelope of 2.5 million euros, this project personally supported by the Head of State invites schools to have more autonomy by developing thematic projects with the possibility for the director to participate in the choice of his crew. To date, 80 establishments have been selected. A laboratory for the schools of the future that Emmanuel Macron would like to see extended throughout France. To encourage applications, he wants to open them the culture pass reserved for colleges and high schools.
An exceptional rescue plan for degraded condominiums
The Head of State has taken a little ahead of his program in Marseille. While Wednesday should be devoted to housing, Emmanuel Macron announced, in Provence, measures in this area. The public authorities will thus launch an exceptional rescue plan for four large degraded private condominiums in Marseille, President Emmanuel Macron and the town hall of Marseille said on Tuesday.
“For four of them [des copropriétés dégradées], we are going to carry out operations to requalify degraded co-ownerships of national interest (ORCOD-IN) to mobilize exceptional means of intervention and better fight against slum landlords. It’s urgent”explained the president to the regional daily Provence. The town hall of Marseille also informed AFP of these four planned ORCOD-INs, as well as an intervention plan for other degraded private condominiums.
The hospital rebuilt in the northern districts
After discussing with wounded soldiers undergoing rehabilitation at the Laveran hospital in the 13th arrondissement, the President of the Republic announced the construction of a new site for the Armed Forces Training Hospital, for an amount of 300 million euros. euros. The establishment will be rebuilt in Sainte-Marthe, still in the northern districts, to improve access to care for the populations of these districts. It will also have a 24-hour emergency service.
The State will also release an additional 240 million euros for the modernization of Marseille Public Assistance hospitals, doubling the volume of its aid committed in Act I of the “Marseille en grand” plan.
“It is clear that the context we are experiencing, the rising costs, the acceleration of needs, have led us to review things”, explained Emmanuel Macron. In total, the State will invest 479 million euros for the modernization project of the AP-HM, he specified,“an unprecedented investment”.
A short sentence on employment that makes people react
“I’m sure to find 10 job offers in the Old Port”, Emmanuel Macron’s response to a Marseillaise whose son no longer touches the RSA sparked reactions on Tuesday. “Me, if I go to the Old Port, I am convinced of finding a little less, but perhaps the President of the Republic is better than me at finding jobs”, kicked Mayor Benoît Payan questioned about this little sentence from the president by BFMTV.
However, the mayor added: “In the context, it was not necessarily what should be said, and the way in which it should be said, even if we are looking for jobs in the catering industry. However, the problem of employment does not is not just a sentence or this kind of statement (…) I am not his lawyer, I hope that was not really what he meant”.
France 3 Provence-Alpes also checked whether it was so easy to find a job in the restaurants of the district. “The hardness and arduousness of the service make people no longer want to do this profession“, lamented the boss of the restaurant Le Relais 50. Small flat, if the offers exist, they often require certain qualifications or training beforehand.
An exchange around Mbappé’s arrival at OM
During a walkabout in the playground of Saint-André primary school, in the city where Zinédine Zidane grew up, Emmanuel Macron was arrested by young OM supporters. “Can you call Mbappe? “, launches one of them. The head of state could only recognize his powerlessness on this file. “Do you want him to come to Marseille? I’ve already tried, that, we won’t succeed“, conceded the President of the Republic.
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Kylian Mbappé at OM? The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, meets the Saint-André students in Marseille from the school. • ©FTV
The Head of State will conclude this exceptional trip to Marseille on Wednesday with a visit to the port.
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