The presidential interview on Thursday evening definitely did not succeed in reassuring the opposition.
If Emmanuel Macron's intervention aimed above all to reassure public opinion, worried about the latest martial declarations of the tenant of the Élysée, the main political groups, apart from the majority, protested against a speech that they consider too bellicose .
For the president, Europe must be
“ready to respond”
to an
“escalation”
by Russia, without
“never”
taking
the “initiative”
or
“leading the offensive”
in military combat against this nuclear power.
“France is a force for peace
,” he insisted on TF1 and France 2. Way of declining, once again, his
“at the same time”
.
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Which did not please the right, three months before the community vote.
“Does he want to wage war on Russia or occupy political space in the middle of the European campaign?”
, mocked LR boss Éric Ciotti on X.
Which suggests that the head of state has ulterior electoral motives:
“Support Ukraine, yes.
Blowing on the embers of a potential global conflict for electoral purposes, no.”
Regularly vilified for its ambiguities vis-à-vis Vladimir Putin's Russia, the RN did not react immediately.
None of the representatives of the flame party spoke on X or any news channel.
In the nationalist camp, only Marion Maréchal, head of the Reconquête! list, made her comment: she had
“the impression that Emmanuel Macron is playing war like Playmobil”
.
“Those who want peace prepare peace.
He doesn’t”
On the left, we are more talkative.
Starting with the former rebellious presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Which warned Emmanuel Macron:
“If we fuel the war, we end up making it ourselves.
Those who want peace prepare peace.
He doesn’t
. ”
According to the tutelary figure of La France Insoumise,
“the president is scary”
, after he mentioned a war
“existential for our Europe and for France”
.
Same tone at EELV.
Emmanuel
“Macron did not reassure.
In reality, France is diplomatically isolated
,” said environmentalist leader Marine Tondelier.
The boss of the communists Fabien Roussel castigated
the president's
“irresponsibility and cynicism” ,
“pushed to their peak”.
For the deputy from the North, the head of state would be
“ready to declare war on Russia”
to
“hide his failure in France”
.