Whoever says Emmanuel Macron speaks means a shower of reactions. And quite logically, this Tuesday, January 16 was no exception. While the Head of State responded at length to journalists’ questions in an almost unprecedented exercise, the elected representatives of the oppositions did not fail to say all the bad things they thought of the “cap” developed by the President of the Republic. While, conversely, his supporters cried genius. A great classic.
On the left, it seems that we have little taste for the subjects raised by Emmanuel Macron such as the birth rate or the questions of the uniform and compulsory learning of the Marseillaise from primary school. “A speech from a reactionary technocrat, squeaked the national secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier. 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 corny.” The announcement of“a big plan against infertility […] to enable demographic rearmament”, is judged “productivist” And “reactionary”by the president of the green group in the Assembly, Cyrielle Chatelain. “Emmanuel Macron’s speech is seventy years late”she tackles.
“Was that the big initiative to unite the French? agrees the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure. Young people, dangerous class in walking. Employees sent back to arbitrary management, doubled deductibles, the unemployed punished, ecology limited, electricity increased, national preference assumed…” “President in crisis, breathless but still satisfied with himself, Macron is completing his reactionary transformation: school, demography, health, public services, regression is increasing and making young people his first target”adds for her part the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain.
The head of state has not convinced the right either, which, however, very often votes for government bills in the National Assembly. “Emmanuel Macron announced this evening a “major meeting with the Nation”. He was nothing. Once again, he promises mountains and wonders. Only one question arises: who has been President since 2017??” writes the president of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti, on X (ex-Twitter). “Emmanuel Macron comments, he continues the issues in which he wants to be the smooth talker of French declinereacted the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, on France 2. His interventions are repeated without the French seeing any changes in their daily lives.”