It was written that the evening exercise, unheard of in the format, would not please everyone.
The Superior council of audio-visual had it not been seized even before the face of the President of the Republic appears on the television screens of the French?
Valérie Pécresse And Fabien Roussel had thus officially called for the counting of the speaking time of the President of the Republic.
Both believe that the latter is taking advantage of his position at the head of state and its advantages in terms of speaking time to campaign surreptitiously.
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Emmanuel Macron, this Wednesday evening, has undoubtedly taken a step forward on the road which should lead him to seek a second term.
"If you ask me if I have ambition for the country after April?
Obviously… ”, he explains.
To advance his pawns, the President of the Republic returned to his experience at the head of state.
He recognized some mistakes, some clumsiness.
He drew the contours of what his pension reform could be if he was able to implement it after being re-elected.
An entire program.
The presidential appearance has ulcerated the opposition. Invited to react at the end of the show on LCI, Eric Zemmour attacked the subject on his favorite theme. "Macron does not recognize the great replacement but he is the president of the great downgrading," he says. If uncontrolled immigration is absurd, most French people are, as well as myself. He said that the safety of the French in transport was a priority at the start of the five-year term. At the end of her mandate, do French women feel safe in transport? No ! Can they dress however they want? No. "
The next election will be the clash of two visions of France.
I think we have to keep France and pass it on to our children.
Emmanuel Macron has already moved on. # Macron20h pic.twitter.com/6CnX96dNTn
- Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) December 15, 2021
Still on the far right, the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella was responsible for representing his party and Marine Le Pen on the LCI set, during the debate which followed the presidential intervention.
“I wonder if one day the French will choose a president who loves them, respects them and gives them proof of love.
He did not purge all of that.
You can't say all is well when you've been the president of an elite.
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Eric Ciotti, who sided with some tensions behind Valérie Pécresse after being beaten at the LR congress, for his part saw it as a "propaganda operation on the part of a candidate.
If the interview was set up even before knowing that Valérie Pécresse was supposed to answer BFMTV's questions the same evening, he believes that his candidate was directly targeted this evening.
This program, according to him, "took place for fear of the candidacy of Valérie Pécresse".
"A self-centered, lukewarm and breathless talking mill"
The left is not stingy in criticism either. Even before the interview was broadcast, rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon had let it be known that his political party would not be represented on the LCI set. But the tribune did not hesitate to tweet. "An egocentric, warm and breathless talking mill," he criticizes. Without a word on the ongoing disaster in Overseas. Without a serious word on ecological and social crises. Neither peace in the world, nor the war in Mali. Above-ground chatter. "
Like Mélenchon, environmentalists regret that the climate issue has been relegated to the background.
"Not a word for the climate, for living things, for the power to live of our fellow citizens who are suffering from the explosion in energy prices," writes Delphine Batho, spokesperson for Yannick Jadot, in a press release.
The ecological emergency was carefully concealed in this painful self-justification session, without any real contradiction ”.
# MacronTF1 Bla-bla-bla ...
In the ecological republic we want to build, we will talk about the climate and living things, and the press will be free to ask disturbing questions.
# Jadot2022 pic.twitter.com/2b0AZT7V7B
- Delphine Batho (@delphinebatho) December 15, 2021
Among the socialists, Boris Vallaud, responsible for representing Anne Hidalgo, saw in the evening exercise an “open-air confessional and not a new idea.
The subject of the evening is less where France is going than where Emmanuel Macron is with himself?
“, Pretends to wonder the deputy.
The Head of State can still rely on his support.
“President until the end, until the last hour, welcomed the deputy Aurore Bergé.
To protect the French, to transform our country, for a strong France.
"The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, who has come closer to the presidential majority in recent weeks, welcomes on Twitter the pragmatic vision for France, a height of vision and a convincing empathy".
For him, Emmanuel Macron is “the president that France needs.
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A pragmatic vision for France 🇫🇷 and a height of vision and a convincing empathy.
@EmmanuelMacron is the president France needs.
Today and facing the challenges of tomorrow.
# macron20h # MacronTF1 pic.twitter.com/VZXbXNPUrl
- Christian Estrosi (@cestrosi) December 15, 2021
