Political reactions were not long in coming after Emmanuel Macron’s televised address. Vaccination obligation for caregivers, extension of the health pass, reforms… The President of the Republic announced on Monday a series of measures to get the country out of the health crisis.
“It’s a question of collective responsibility” for LREM
Richard Ferrand, President LREM of the National Assembly, “welcomes the decision of the Head of State” on the pension reform: “first the method with the continuation of work alongside the social partners and finally the moment, a once the pandemic and its consequences are under control ”. “Vaccinate, revive, protect then reform at the right pace will mark the path of the coming months”, assures Richard Ferrand. Christophe Castaner, leader of the LREM deputies: “If you decide not to vaccinate yourself, you assume somewhere to get out of the collective game. To protect the collective, we extend a hand to everyone (…). We must ensure that those who make the effort for the collective are not the victims of those who refuse to make an effort ”.
“It’s a question of collective responsibility. Today the health pass is just a QR code on a phone. It is not the end of the world or infringing on freedoms. A little over a year ago, we were confined… It’s a request to protect ourselves, not to piss off people, ”added Bruno Questel, LREM deputy. For Christian Estrosi, ex-LR mayor of Nice, Emmanuel Macron held “a clear speech (…) both on Covid-19 protection measures and industrial strategy”. “All that remains is to define the place and role of communities to achieve the objectives set by the president. Yes to more decentralization to reach them ”, according to him.
“A deconstruction of the State” for the RN
Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally, denounces a “serious decline in individual freedoms, a deconstruction of the State, the liquidation of our social protection system”. According to the candidate for the Elysée, “Macron’s roadmap is clear. It is again the French who will pay for the improvidence and incompetence of our leaders. For us it’s no! “
Serious decline in individual freedoms, deconstruction of the state, liquidation of our social protection system: Macron’s roadmap is clear.
It is again the French who will pay for the improvidence and incompetence of our leaders. For us it’s no! MLP
– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) July 12, 2021
“With Emmanuel Macron, it’s two birds with one stone: freedom and equality swept away with the back of the hand, to satisfy an ineffective hygienism,” protested Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France and candidate for the ‘Elysée, in a tweet.
“The world before… and worse” for EELV
“A sanitary pass to go to a shopping center, that is to say a sanitary pass to eat? Do we realize what this means in terms of public freedoms? But in which society does Emmanuel Macron tip France? Asks Gilles Platret, one of the vice-presidents of the Republicans.
For Julien Aubert, LR deputy, “the extension of the health pass amounts to establishing compulsory vaccination which does not speak its name, and to creating two categories of citizens. As much as I am in favor of the vaccination of caregivers, I believe that this measure is brutal and unsuitable ”. According to Yannick Jadot, EELV MEP and candidate for the environmentalists’ primary for the presidential election, “Emmanuel Macron’s project of denial of the climate emergency and social regression – unemployment insurance, lower retirement age, uberization of society… – will therefore resume as soon as the pandemic is over. The world before… and worse ”.
“A system at the service of shareholders” for the PCF
For Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, also candidate for the Elysee: “The mortality rate in France and the state of our health system do not allow any satisfaction! Let’s make vaccination a great national and global cause ”. “Macron did not” rush “anything. It has aggravated a system in the service of shareholders. Unemployment insurance and pension reforms, always further into injustice and inequalities ”.
“Work more to repay the debt, make life hard for the unemployed, raise the retirement age … No more doubt: the spokesperson for the European Commission in France is ready for the right-wing primary” , believes Adrien Quatennens, LFI deputy.