Jean-Luc Mélenchon reacted to Emmanuel Macron’s first statement after the first round of the legislative elections on Tuesday. He summed up that statement in a “Trump sketch.”
After Emmanuel Macron’s statement in front of his plane about to take off, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called the intervention a “Trump sketch”. “Macron sinks. At the polls, except among those over sixty. In the polls and in the authority over his people, the flag is at half mast,” he wrote on his site. “I hardly dare to say that it’s warmed up, given the temperature. This Trump sketch to warn against the enemy within is the symbol of an era, ”he still regretted.
Emmanuel Macron indeed called on Tuesday afternoon to “give him a solid majority”, essential for the implementation of his program for which he was elected. He spoke of “the higher interest of the nation”. He summed up this appeal by asking for a “republican outburst” from the tarmac at Orly airport.
“A kind of panic that is spreading to Macronie” according to Julien Bayou
The general secretary of EELV Julien Bayou also took the floor and spoke of “a kind of panic that is spreading to Macronie”. He repeated once again that “Emmanuel Macron’s mandate did not convince” and that he had been “reelected by default”.
The ecologist considered that it was “really dangerous that the president finally can say to himself that, if he is beaten, it is the Republic which is beaten. There is something very arrogant there, something very Jupiter”. “It happens to lose elections, and, if obviously LREM is beaten on Sunday, it will only be a defeat” he added. But for Julien Bayou, a defeat of the presidential coalition Together would rather be “good news” “for wages, public services, the climate”.