• Emmanuel Macron gave an interview this Wednesday at midday to the television news of TF1 and France 2.
  • In the National Assembly, the head of state's remarks inflamed the opposition, from the Nupes to the National Rally.
  • The left accuses the president of playing "arsonists" on the eve of a new day of mobilization against the pension reform. Marine Le Pen has called for the resignation of Elisabeth Borne.

To the National Assembly,

In the corridors of the Palais-Bourbon, this Monday, there is almost not a cat. It is almost 13 p.m., Emmanuel Macron is preparing to speak to the French during an interview on the television news of TF1 and France 2. Three days after the rejection of the motions of censure, and on the eve of a new day of mobilization against the pension reform, elected officials do not want to miss a crumb of the explanations of the head of state. "No time... ", blows running the deputy PS Boris Vallaud, refusing the microphones tense. A good thirty minutes later, the oppositions are present to castigate the words of the President of the Republic. 20 Minutes summarizes these criticisms.

Macron, a "pyromaniac" for the Nupes

The first to crowd in front of journalists are the members of the Nupes. And it is an understatement to say that they did not appreciate what they just heard. "The president is completely out of touch with the country. He cannot dissolve the people, so he despises them. He makes shameful comparisons between the mobilizations in France and those of Bolsonaro's Brazil or the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, he is a pyromaniac firefighter, "says Jérôme Guedj, PS deputy of Essonne. "His speech was soulless, without humanity, without direction, abounds the communist of Seine-Maritime Sébastien Jumel. We are dealing with a spoiled child, who plays with the Republic and isolates himself. It risks amplifying anger. I call for a calm human tide tomorrow [Thursday] to carry away the reform."

The day before, Emmanuel Macron called on his government and its majority to "appease" the country and "listen to anger". But for left-wing elected officials, his words of the day can only reinforce the climate of tension and mobilizations. "He continues his passage in force, with what makes his trademark: arrogance. But a president is not there to throw barrels of gasoline on the fire as he does. We must listen to the people who express themselves, "says Manuel Bompard, the boss of La France insoumise. "He's an absolute arsonist. He sets fire to this country, pushes people to their limits, creates anger. Tomorrow, he will come to tell us that he is order in the face of chaos, but it is he who creates chaos, "adds the First Secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure.





The "sausage" of laws castigated by LR

On the other side of the room, Prisca Thévenot, spokesperson for the Renaissance group, defends the desire to find compromise in Parliament, as mentioned by the Head of State. Because Emmanuel Macron has charged Elisabeth Borne with "building a government program" likely to "enlarge" the relative majority in the Assembly. "We were elected to be in the opposition, so we will be in the opposition," said Pierre-Henri Dumont, LR deputy for Pas-de-Calais. "There is a great danger in signing a government agreement with the president. If there is no non-populist opposition in the Assembly tomorrow, in 2027 we will have Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Marine Le Pen at the Elysée."

The announcement of the postponement of the immigration bill, which will finally be split into "several texts" to try to obtain votes left and right, was also not appreciated by the elected LR. "If Emmanuel Macron thinks that he will be able to pass texts by sausage them like this, it will not go well. Because this strategy of cutting the texts, to seduce the left, then the right, means that at a certain moment, we will all be cuckolded, "tackles the elected representative of Moselle Fabien Di Filippo.

The RN calls for the resignation of Elisabeth Borne

"The conjurer has no more rabbits to pull out of the hat." Marine Le Pen, too, does not spare Emmanuel Macron during her post-JT press conference in the Assembly. But the president of the RN group also makes Elisabeth Borne's ears whistle. "She comes out pulverized from this sequence. If the Prime Minister had any political sense, she would leave on her own. She can obviously not resign, but her authority is ruined and her future action is illusory, "tackles the elected representative of Hénin-Beaumont.

The former presidential candidate predicts a change of government to come. "I put on my outfit of Mrs. Irma, there is a good chance that Emmanuel Macron proceeds to a reshuffle, after weeks of blockage and violence, giving credit to these blockages and violence," she regrets. An option again ruled out this Wednesday by the head of state.

  • Emmanuel Macron
  • Pension reform 2023
  • National Assembly
  • Demonstration
  • Nupes
  • National Rally (RN)
  • Marine Le Pen