Two weeks after a first one-hour stint on France 2’s new “L’Événement” program, President Emmanuel Macron returned on Wednesday evening for a new interview with journalist Caroline Roux. The President of the Republic was questioned for a little over an hour on domestic political issues, from pension reform to the Lola affair and immigration, not to mention the fuel shortage, inflation and the energy crisis. Guest of Europe Matin Thursday, Sébastien Chenu, spokesman for the National Rally and deputy from the North, said he saw “a manager of decline”. “Emmanuel Macron is the manager of decline, Emmanuel Macron is a failure [sur] security, purchasing power, inflation, France’s place in the world, unemployment. He is unable to restore order in our country”, he tackled on Europe 1.
Emmanuel Macron “is totally overwhelmed”
The head of state has sown “disorder” in the country, according to the vice-president of the National Assembly. “We have the feeling of a president who sees a situation that escapes him, he pretends to be someone who organizes things, who has a course, in reality, he no longer sees anything at all, he is totally overwhelmed by the situation he himself created,” he said.
Without making an existential link between immigration and insecurity, Emmanuel Macron recognized the overrepresentation of immigration in delinquency in Paris. “It’s totally amazing, the President of the Republic recognizes that there is indeed an excessively large share of immigration in insecurity in Paris and on the side, he tells us ‘but I do not recognize the link between immigration and insecurity’, [c’est] totally schizophrenic,” he thundered.
“The French are paying the price for this disconnection”
“The President of the Republic no longer sees anything, no longer understands anything and is totally disconnected from the real country. And I think that unfortunately, it is the French who, on a daily basis, are paying the price for this disconnection” , he added. “The French don’t want to suffer, they want to be an actor in their destiny. I think it was Clémenceau who said that: ‘it’s a people of lions governed by goats’, maybe that I’m wrong but that’s pretty much what I think”, concluded the spokesperson for the National Rally on Europe 1.