He did not convince everyone, and the oppositions were not shy to say so. Emmanuel Macron has, once again, tried to turning the page on pension reform during an interview with the 20 Hours newspaper of TF1, this Monday evening. Purchasing power, investments, diplomacy… The topics discussed were numerous, offering as many weapons to the opponents of the President of the Republic.
Among them, Marine Le Pen denounced, on Twitter, the “denial of reality” of the Head of State, ensuring that the RN was ready to “succeed where “the majority had “failed”.
Over the interviews, it seems that Emmanuel Macron is denying the reality of Macronism. Impoverishment of the middle cles, savagery of society, contempt for democracy… A severe but fair self-portrait!
We are ready to succeed where they failed.
– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) May 15, 2023
On the other side of the political spectrum, LFI deputy François Ruffin found that Emmanuel Macron was “completely out of the ordinary” and judged that the timetable presented by the Head of State was “rather vague”, pointing in particular finger the announcement of the tax reduction for the middle cles planned… By 2027. “He has nothing to offer on” the question of salaries, he said on BFMTV this Monday evening.
Critics from all sides
In the same camp, Manuel Bompard estimated that the president had made an “yet another exercise in self-satisfaction, contempt and lies. (…) We understand why 65% of French people no longer listen to it”. Emmanuel Macron is “disconnected as never before”, for Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group at the National embly.
On the day of the great feast at Versailles, #Macron20h deign to speak to the people. But to say what?
Inflation? He can’t do anything, we’ll see in the fall.
The withdrawal of the pension reform?
No way, he doesn’t want to lose face.
In short, disconnected as ever.— Mathilde Panot (@MathildePanot) May 15, 2023
Even at the LRs, yet dredged by the government during the pension reform sequence, Emmanuel Macron did not convince. “A bit of a feeling that the President spoke to say nothing,” commented Éric Ciotti on Twitter.
On the side of the PS, Olivier Faure criticized the “same refrain” from a “minority” president who “despises 9 out of 10 active people, all the unions and the National embly”.
