Oudéa-Castéra controversy, choice of Rachida Dati, nuclear power, economy, unique outfit at school, Hamas-Israel war… For two hours, Emmanuel Macron took stock of the hot issues during a major press conference organized in the Elysée. Here are the main reactions from opposition leaders.
Marine Tondelier, national secretary of EELV (on X):
“A speech from a reactionary technocrat. #Macron has avoided all the subjects that interest the French: increase in electricity, ecological crisis, housing, insecurity. Instead, a lunar and paternalistic general policy speech. Creepy, really. And cheesy. »
Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF (on X):
“The general policy speech has just been delivered. Electricity bills will increase, Drug prices will increase. But salaries are not going to increase! Mass has been said “.
Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS (on X):
“Was that the big initiative to unite the French? Young people, dangerous class in walking. Employees sent back to arbitrary management, deductibles doubled, the unemployed punished, ecology limited, electricity increased, national preference assumed…”
Manuel Bompard, coordinator of La France insoumise (on X):
“In an exercise worthy of the ORTF, Macron continues reactionary clichés, repeats broken promises and announces a new stage of social mistreatment. The French will not see their salaries increase. There will be no more caregivers or teachers. Electricity will always be more expensive. Medical deductibles will double. The flow of words will not dry up the suffering of the country.”
Eric Ciotti, president of the Republicans (press release):
“The President of the Republic promised a meeting with the Nation. It was just a meeting with himself. During a long exercise in self-satisfaction, he explained that for six and a half years, everything has been better. We hadn’t noticed it. The President of the Republic has drawn up a list of wishful thinking, with which it is difficult to disagree, but the ambitions are as monumental as the announcements are modest. The French expect more than speeches: they expect actions and consistency. »
Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally (on France 2):
“I had the feeling, at first, of a President of the Republic who was not President of the Republic but who was a Prime Minister, who was making a declaration of general policy while taking a bit of a whole subject, sometimes going into microdetails. And I put myself in the place of the French who must ask themselves: but ultimately, tomorrow morning when I go to work, what will fundamentally change in my daily life? »