Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will not speak on the occasion of July 14. An important date, which was to mark the end of the president’s desire for appeasement, 100 days after his April speech. Why is the president keeping silent? According to Sébastien Chenu, vice-president of the National Assembly and deputy National Rally (RN) from the North, guest of Europe 1 Matin Thursday, the head of state “has nothing to say”.
“We have a president who does not know how to speak with authority”
“If the president is annoyed, let him know that it is the French who are annoyed with him,” said Sébastien Chenu. “We have a president who is hidden, who has nothing to say. He does not know how to speak with authority. He would just like the French to obey but he does not know what it is to restore authority. in our country.”
After the riots that broke out in several cities in France on June 27, following the death of Nahel, July 14 will not be celebrated in several municipalities. “This is what he has done with France: a country in which we can no longer even celebrate July 14 because we are afraid! The mayors are afraid that thugs will come to sow discord, come to create riots” , protested the fifth vice-president of the National Assembly at the microphone of Europe 1. “When we see that it transforms July 14 into Fort Knox (note: military camp of the United States Army) and that dozens of municipalities are giving up celebrating the national holiday, it’s a disaster in terms of image.” The town of Savigny-sur-Orge, in Essonne, and Montargis in Loiret, will not offer fireworks to residents this year.
For Sébastien Chenu, Emmanuel Macron renounces the greatness of France and represents “the president who will have damaged our country the most”. “He’s the anti de Gaulle somewhere,” he added.
These “100 days”, a “flop”
A week after the end of the riots, Emmanuel Macron has still not spoken about the urban violence that shook the country. “He’s been President of the Republic for six years already, so I don’t know how long it takes him to make a diagnosis and draw the consequences and the answers, but the French are in a hurry,” he said. tonne. “The French are in a hurry, a security emergency, a social emergency, an emergency of purchasing power. And the President of the Republic does not know what to say to the French. He has no answer.”
The Head of State has not yet taken stock of the 100 days of appeasement set last April. “A total flop” according to Sébastien Chenu. “The President of the Republic is damaging our country, shrinking our country, damaging its image internationally and leaving the French to their problems,” he concluded.