The Prime Minister decided: We are not touching November 11. For several days and the great race for savings launched by the Barnier government, the question of a second day of solidarity has been raised by many parliamentarians.
In short, which public holiday could be removed, out of the eleven on our calendar? Like Pentecost Monday, the first day of solidarity established in 2004, a new day would see employees working without additional pay.
Michel Barnier puts Jean-François Copé back on his land
An idea supported by the Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand and by that of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, at the end of October. On this Monday, November 11, Jean-François Copé, mayor of Meaux, spoke on this subject to our colleagues at France Inter to propose this day of commemoration. “There is never a good holiday to eliminate, there is never a good savings. We do not need a public holiday to commemorate November 11, otherwise that would mean that we have 65 million French people at the foot of the war memorials,” explained the former MP before adding, that There are “a thousand ways to commemorate without not working”.
A few hours later, when he had joined the Prime Minister in his town of Meaux for the commemorations of the Great War, the latter took it upon himself to respond to him and the speech had the merit of being clear: “Honor the memory of these fighters is first of all having the memory of this tragic story, which is why I am happy to meet you on this November 11, a public holiday to which we are attached. » We bet that Jean-François Copé received the message.
