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The reactions are going well after the speech of Emmanuel Macron. This Friday morning, the day after the reshuffle, the president spoke at the opening of the Council of Ministers. After having renewed his confidence in Elisabeth Borne, he drew up the main projects awaiting the government, from reindustrialization to full employment, including schools, ecological planning and republican order.
But on the left as on the right, this speech is strongly criticized. “Reshuffle, Macron’s speech … Nothing has any more impact”, writes for example Jean-Luc Mélenchon. For the Insoumis leader, Macronie “over the water, drifts at random from the moods of the presidential monarch”.
Same story on the side of the Socialist Party: “He is a president who has no project for the country. He applied his program, namely to reform pensions and today he does not know where he is going. And that’s the reason why we saw all the mess around the announcement of this appointment, “denounces the deputy of Eure, Philippe Brun.
#Redesignspeech of #Macron, nothing more impacts. The macronie over the water drifts haphazardly from the moods of the presidential monarch.
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) July 21, 2023
“Thank you for this confession”
On the right, the reactions are just as strong. “What is striking in Emmanuel Macron’s speech is the abyss between his words and his actions, his promises and his results, the picture he draws and the reality that is imposed on all French people. Bruno Retailleau.
Independence, efficiency, republican order, demanding public spending…
What strikes in the speech of@EmmanuelMacronit is the abyss between his words and his deeds, his promises and his results, the picture he draws and the reality that imposes itself on all…— Bruno Retailleau (@BrunoRetailleau) July 21, 2023
As for the National Rally, MP Laure Lavalette takes the president at his word when he explains that he has chosen continuity. “Thank you for this confession”, she mocks, while Emmanuel Macron has planned to speak again by the end of the weekend, this time not to the address of his ministers, but of the French.