Emmanuel Macron will speak Monday at 20:00 on the main channels. The head of state will speak three days after the promulgation of the law raising the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

The opposition continues to pound his "provocations" and his "denial" of the crisis situation. The inter-union has not laid down its arms and has already called for May 1 to be made "an exceptional and popular day of mobilization" against the reform. "We are determined to accelerate" the reforms after that of pensions, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said.