Eric Ciotti said on Monday that Emmanuel Macron had to “explain himself” after his speech on Friday where he spoke of “paying the price” in the face of the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
LR deputy Eric Ciotti said on Monday that Emmanuel Macron had to “explain himself” after his speech on Friday where he spoke of “paying the price” in the face of the consequences of the war in Ukraine. “I do not understand this formula”, affirmed on BFMTV and RMC Mr. Ciotti, for whom “these remarks are extraordinarily worrying, anxiety-provoking”. “The President of the Republic must explain himself: is it on the military ground that there will be a stronger commitment? I dispute it and do not want us to go in this direction because France does not does not have to be co-belligerent in this conflict,” he added.
Friday in Bormes-les-Mimosas (Var), the Head of State said: “I am thinking of our people, who will need the strength of soul to face the coming time, to resist uncertainties, sometimes to ease and adversity and, united, agree to pay the price for our freedom and our values”. For Mr. Ciotti, candidate for the presidency of the Republicans, “these remarks question us because what is behind it?” “Is it on the economic level, and there, does the President of the Republic not want to blame the conflict for his internal faults?”, he added, referring “ to what’s coming for energy” with the threat of soaring prices.
According to him “if we are there, it is for a very important part” because of the “errors in the multiannual energy programming” of the previous government, in particular the “major strategic error” consisting in “that we close 10 nuclear reactors”. In this context, Ukraine “is probably a bit of an alibi”, he said.