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POLITICS – François Hollande asked Emmanuel Macron to “makeeconomic and social emergency”His“ priority ”for the post-coronavirus, this Friday June 26 during their first one-on-one lunch since the presidential election of 2017, said the entourage of the former president of the Republic.
“From the start of the health crisis, François Hollande worried about the coming economic and social crisis. His concern is even greater today, faced the expected deterioration of the situation in the coming months”, According to this source.
“Strong decisions”, but “nothing that could divide”
The latter mentioned “the particular case of the BorgWarner company which announced yesterday (Thursday) the outright closure of its Eyrein site in Corrèze, resulting in the loss of nearly 400 jobs”.
François Hollande “insisted with President Macron on the need to make the economic and social emergency the first priority of the public authorities, with a reindustrialisation of the most fragile territories, a recovery before the summer of consumption with targeted checks and the launch of a plan for the renovation of housing ”.
“The situation calls for strong decisions on the ecological level” but “nothing must be undertaken which could divide, in a period when our country first needs appeasement”, we add from the same source, in allusion “The potential referendum and the postponement of regional regularly mentioned in the press”.
A “tone was courteous, frank and republican”
“The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and his predecessor François Hollande displayed a shared concern for unity in the particular moment that the country is experiencing, with a common attachment to provide strong responses to immediate priorities”, on the “economic and social ”in particular, said the Elysée, later in the evening.
It was the first time that the current head of state and his predecessor, whose relations have been strained since 2017, met face to face. “The tone was courteous, frank and republican,” according to the entourage.
François Hollande had already visited the Elysée twice since the election of Emmanuel Macron, once in September 2017 after Paris won the 2024 Olympic Games and once again on the occasion a tribute lunch to Jacques Chirac, after his death, in September 2019.
President Macron met on Tuesday afternoon with former President Nicolas Sarkozy, before receiving Mr. Hollande, as part of his consultations to prepare for the post-coronavirus crisis and the “new stage” of the quinquennium.
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