The announcement has grown the Alsatian elected officials and Mosellans. Friday, August 8, the Prime Minister sent an orientation document to the social partners, in order to prepare the discussions which must take place from September 1ᵉʳ.
This text, revealed on August 10 by AFP and Les Echos, Reaffirms François Bayrou’s desire to remove two holidays to find savings for the 2026 budget: Easter Monday and May 8. “Possible specificities to be expected for Alsace, Moselle and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon may also be discussed”specifies later the document issued by Matignon.
Under these conditions, the elected officials of the Grand-Est had reasons to believe that the public holidays specific to their territories-Saint-Etienne, celebrated on December 26, and the Good Friday-were also threatened. Sunday, the deputy (Renaissance) of the Haut-Rhin Brigitte Klinkert hastened to contact the Prime Minister to ask him for explanations. “He replied that he only talked about national holidays”she confirms to Monde.
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