The speech was expected, two days after the express promulgation of the disputed pension reform. In a speech, President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed Monday evening that this bill was necessary, while saying “regret” that it was not “accepted” and that a “consensus” was “not able to be found”. But his speech is far from unanimous among the opposition. The rebellious leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon mocks on Twitter a head of state “completely out of reality”, and refers to the pot concerts organized all over France.
Unreal #Macron20h. Completely out of reality, assumes the theft of two years of freedom. Pans sound fairer.
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) April 17, 2023
Le Pen denounces a “practice disconnected from power”
For her part, the leader of the National Rally Marine Le Pen criticizes an Emmanuel Macron “still stuck in a parallel world”. The 2022 presidential finalist also denounces on Twitter a “disconnected, solitary and obtuse practice of power”, after the president’s televised address, which, according to her, announces “the continuation of a five-year term of contempt, indifference and brutality “.
This disconnected, solitary and obtuse practice of power announces the continuation of a five-year term of contempt, indifference and brutality from which we will have to get out of the ballot box.
– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) April 17, 2023
Republican President Eric Ciotti lamented on Monday that Emmanuel Macron’s speech took the form of “a catalog of pious wishes”. “The method obviously does not change with laudable objectives but without the slightest questioning”, again criticized the LR manager on Twitter. “The immobility affirmed by the President of the Republic unfortunately contrasts with the anger of the French”, further lamented Eric Ciotti in a press release.
“Nothing concrete” in Macron’s intervention, judge Berger
The secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, considered that there was “nothing concrete” in the prospects opened up on Monday by the President of the Republic, who notably proposed a “new pact for life at work” in his speech from the Elysée. Regarding the prospects “which are given, it’s a bit of a speech on the method for a tenth time but nothing concrete”, criticized Laurent Berger. “The appeasement, it had to be done on the subject which created the social conflagration, the pension reform”, he added on BFMTV.
The secretary general of the CGT, Sophie Binet, for her part affirmed on LCI to have the feeling that the President of the Republic “did not hear what the millions of demonstrators and strikers told him and repeated. “That speech could have been made by ChatGPT. There was a very disembodied side to it,” she quipped. “To turn the page, you have to offer us concrete things” and “in the projects he lists for us, I see either very concrete things that are deeply divisive”, such as the reform of vocational high schools or the RSA, or points ” totally obscure and very general” such as on wages. “So, the lark mirror, it’s good, we’ve already had enough of it. There, the account is clearly not there,” she added.
Borne will present the government’s roadmap “next week”
Responding to a statement by the Head of State, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne confirmed that she will present the government’s roadmap “next week”. “Emmanuel Macron formulated it with force: ‘We have before us 100 days of appeasement, unity, ambition and action in the service of France'”, tweeted the head of government.
.@EmmanuelMacron formulated it with force: “We have before us 100 days of peace, unity, ambition and action in the service of France”.
Next week I will present my Government’s roadmap.
— Elisabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne) April 17, 2023
“Responding to the concerns expressed by our fellow citizens in recent months while building a more independent country, a fairer and more united nation in a stronger Europe: this is the course set by Emmanuel Macron. Renaissance will put all its strength and energy into it”, ensures for his part Stéphane Séjourné, the secretary general of the presidential party.