Attack on Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform or on the international credibility of Marine Le Pen… There were many political reactions during the televised debate between the two rounds.
You shouldn’t offend your Russian banker Marine Le Pen
In Emmanuel Macron’s camp, the leader of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner criticized Marine Le Pen for wanting to “leave Europe” with his proposal for a European alliance of nations. “We want to continue to build a strong France, in a strong Europe,” he wrote on Twitter.
Minister Delegate for Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher echoed Emmanuel Macron’s attacks on Marine Le Pen’s acquaintances with Russian power: “Madame Le Pen says she gives her full and complete support to the Ukrainian people. In reality: she and her group in the European Parliament did not vote for financial aid to Ukraine, nor the new set of sanctions. And that’s normal, you shouldn’t offend your Russian banker, ”she said on Twitter.
Macron is in McKinsey’s cosmos
Those close to Marine Le Pen have blasted Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to push back the legal retirement age to 64 or 65. According to Louis Aliot, vice-president of the RN, this measure “is more accidents at work, more occupational diseases, therefore more expenses and dependencies to be expected for our compatriots. Broken and ruined, that’s how Macron loves the French,” he tweeted. “Marine Le Pen is in real life, Macron is in the McKinsey cosmos,” said Rassemblement national spokesman Julien Odoul.
The sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Debout la France), who called for a vote for Marine Le Pen in the second round, strongly criticized Emmanuel Macron on nuclear power: “destroy the nuclear sector with (François) Hollande, close Fessenheim, then plan the opening of 50 wind farms at sea that will disfigure our coasts… and Macron wants us to believe that he is in favor of nuclear power? »
The Insoumis are bored
The Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who came third in the first round, lamented in a tweet a “mess”. “The country deserved better. Can’t wait for the third round, ”he said. LFI MEP Manuel Bompard dismissed Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen back to back on purchasing power: “Macron offers a bonus if the employer is willing. Le Pen proposes to raise wages if the employer is willing. Only Mélenchon offers a real increase in the minimum wage! “, he wrote on Twitter. “If boredom was deadly, the Macron-LePen debate would be a cemetery,” reacted the president of the LFI group to the Assembly Mathilde Panot.
EELV MEP Karima Delli criticized Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for being “off the ground” on ecology, while Sandine Rousseau attacked “extreme right candidate” Marine Le Pen.
A “lunar” discussion
On the right wing of LR, the mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône Gilles Platret saw in this debate “the sufficiency against incompetence. France deserves better. The boss of LR deputies Damien Abad saw “a clear difference in level and values” between the two, reaffirming that he would vote Emmanuel Macron on Sunday.
In Eric Zemmour’s party, which is calling for a vote for Le Pen, MEP and RN defector Gilbert Collard regretted a “lunar” discussion around 10:30 p.m.: “People zap after 30 to 60 minutes of debate and we don’t have heard nothing about McKinsey, little about the yellow vests, nothing about the deprivation of freedoms, nothing about insecurity, about immigration…”, themes discussed during the rest of the evening.