All the political opposition and trade unionists were connected to the 1 p.m. newspapers of TF1 and France 2 this Wednesday. Emmanuel Macron spoke for the first time since the adoption of the pension reform, highly contested in the street, on the eve of the ninth day of inter-union mobilization. Among the first to react, the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger on Wednesday accused the President of the Republic of having lied about the CFDT’s position on pensions, “to hide his inability to find a majority to vote for his reform unfair”.
Denial and lie! The CFDT has a pension reform project.
Macron 2019 had understood it, he had taken up our ambition for a universal system.
Macron 2023 remakes history and lies about @cfdt to hide his inability to find a majority to vote for his unjust reform— Laurent Berger (@CfdtBerger) March 22, 2023
“Denial and lies! The CFDT has a pension reform project. Macron 2019 had understood it, he had taken up our ambition for a universal system. Macron 2023 is remaking history and lying on @cfdt to hide his inability to find a majority to vote for its unjust reform”, he reacted on Twitter.
Emmanuel Macron’s remarks during his interview on Wednesday noon are “outrageous and contempt for the millions of people who demonstrate”, reacted for his part the secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez. “It’s lunar this interview. It’s: everything is fine, I’m doing everything well, nothing is happening in the street. There is no answer”, denounced Philippe Martinez in front of journalists in Tours where he attends the CFE-CGC congress.
Mélenchon denounces Macron’s “traditional marks of contempt”
Emmanuel Macron “put more explosives on an already well lit inferno”, criticized the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure after the television interview with the head of state, while the head of environmentalists Marine Tondelier denounced a ” self-satisfaction”. “It’s amazing, he is in absolute denial,” said Olivier Faure from the National Assembly. “I fear that he has put no more explosives on an already well lit inferno”, he added, in particular by “disqualifying the unions”. Marine Tondelier said for her part on Twitter “frozen by the demonstration of self-satisfaction of the president” who, in her eyes, made “offensive remarks”.
Frozen by the demonstration of self-satisfaction of the President #Macron.
In addition to his contemptuous and even offensive remarks,
Besides the emptiness of what he offers,When will he understand that he does not have a monopoly on responsibility and the general interest?#JT13h#Macron1pm
— Marine Tondelier (@marinetondelier) March 22, 2023
Solutions “not up to the political crisis”, slice Ciotti
President of the Republicans Éric Ciotti considered that the solutions proposed by Emmanuel Macron during his televised intervention on Wednesday were “not up to the political and economic crisis that we are experiencing”. “The only real announcement of this speech is that the fight against mass immigration is no longer a priority for the government” and “it is a fault”, estimated in a press release the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, deploring that the head of state has “failed to convince the French” of the need for pension reform.
@EmmanuelMacron give up on a bill on immigration, which is one of the major problems of our country. Instead, small cut-out texts that won’t solve anything… as usual. #immigration
— Bruno Retailleau (@BrunoRetailleau) March 22, 2023
For Aurélien Pradié, LR deputy for Lot who voted for the Liot group’s motion of censure, “Emmanuel Macron does not understand. He does not understand the immense fractures of the Nation. He does not understand that his self-satisfaction is one more provocation. To change nothing, to wait, to tweak, is to play with fire. How to ignore the French so much?”, He wrote on Twitter.
Emmanuel Macron does not understand.
He does not understand the immense fractures of the Nation.
He does not understand that his self-satisfaction is one more provocation.
To change nothing, to wait, to fiddle, is to play with fire.
How to ignore the French so much?
— Aurelien Pradie (@AurelienPradie) March 22, 2023