Emmanuel Macron ended his media operation with a passage as scrutinized as exposed: the 20h of TF1. Operating a broad sequence on the reindustrialization of the France, with the Choose France summit as a highlight on Monday at the Palace of Versailles, the president praised the merits of his economic and industrial policy. Which, according to him, would have attracted a "record" amount of investment: "13 billion euros invested, more than 8000,2 jobs". While Emmanuel Macron hopes to commit to a reduction of <> billion euros in taxes for the middle classes by the end of the five-year term, while extending "if necessary" the anti-inflation shield, the oppositions are not enthusiastic.
Starting with the former finalist of the 2022 presidential election, Marine Le Pen. On Twitter, the president of the RN group in the National Assembly considers that "over the interviews", Emmanuel Macron "makes a denial of reality on macronism." "Impoverishment of the middle classes, savagery of society, contempt for democracy... A severe but fair self-portrait!", continues the deputy of Pas-de-Calais. By indicating that the RN is "ready to succeed where they failed.
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On the other side of the political spectrum, the leader of the France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon portrayed a president as a "friend of the rich" who "returned from Versailles". "But where is the President of the Republic? In France, we miss it, "vituperated the former contender to the Elysee. Who never holds back his blows to defend the "monarchical" practices of the Fifth Republic. The boss of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot denounced "lies on lies" and a "self-satisfaction" on the part of the head of state, "disconnected as ever.
»A "long, very long, too long speech"
"Macron explains to us that everything is fine in the best of all worlds. Thanks to him, of course. No one listens to him anymore. No one believes it anymore. He can no longer govern the country," she said. If the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure mocked "the same refrain" adopted by Emmanuel Macron for several months, the president of the EELV deputies Cyrielle Châtelain has taunted "an exercise in self-congratulation disconnected and useless."
Finally, in the ranks of the right, the president of the LR Eric Ciotti mocked a "long, very long, too long speech". The deputy of Alpes-Maritimes has "a bit of the feeling that the president has spoken to say nothing." "It is not the repetition of speeches that gives them strength. The French want a course, clarity and ambition: 2 billion in tax cuts on 1500 billion in compulsory levies, it is not ambitious but ridiculous, "skewed the boss of the right. It should be noted that Les Républicains were quite discreet about this televised intervention. Apart from Eric Ciotti, no other cacique, whether the boss of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix, his counterpart in the Senate Bruno Retailleau, or Laurent Wauquiez, had reacted at the end of the evening.