They were all waiting for him. Emmanuel Macron’s candidacy for the presidential election has finally been formalized through a letter to the French, published this Friday in various regional press titles. This famous letter nevertheless began to circulate on the Internet on Thursday evening, allowing Macron’s opponents, in the starting blocks, to attack the record of the freshly declared candidate.
Valérie Pécresse: “Lost illusions”
On BFM TV on Thursday evening, candidate LR recalled the need, according to her, to hold a “true democratic debate”. Valérie Pécresse also called for a “spirit of responsibility” and at one “dignified opposition”, given the international situation. Not enough to prevent him from falling head over heels on the balance sheet of Emmanuel Macron. denouncing the “beautiful speeches” of the President, she asks the citizens “to open one’s eyes” over this quinquennium of “lost illusions” who would have “damaged France”.
In addition, the president of the Ile-de-France region demands that Emmanuel Macron return “accounts” : “Power should not believe itself above the people.” And to affirm that she will do everything that has not been done during this five-year term.
Marine Le Pen: “He is responsible for all crises”
“Pretty much every line I disagree with him and therefore I will do everything to ensure that the next five years are without him and with me.” During her visit to France 2, Marine Le Pen announced the color. Alluding to Emmanuel Macron’s letter, she believes that the President is choosing to “to stay behind” of the countryside and curries its “mea culpa”.Crisis of yellow vests, pension crisis and “hospital collapse”she asserts that“He is responsible for all the crises that occurred during his mandate”. Continuing her indictment, Marine Le Pen considers that the President “discharges himself of his responsibility by granting himself merits which he does not have” : figures on industrial jobs, on unemployment, on the drop in dependence on fossil fuels… According to her, “everything is false” .
The candidate of the National Rally, far from feeling targeted by the evocations of “fallback” and of “nostalgia” mentioned by Emmanuel Macron in his letter, takes the opportunity to recall the “three extremely strong elements”of his program: “protection, transmission and projection” to no longer continue with the policy of “let go, let go, let go” .
Anne Hidalgo: “The real presidential debate is finally starting”
An application announcement “without surprise” for Anne Hidalgo, since “President Macron is at the service of candidate Macron”for months according to the socialist, welcoming all the same that the democratic debate […], project against project” that she demands “will finally be able to stand” .
In a statement published on her campaign website, Anne Hidalgo contrasts France’s right-wing and Macron’s vision with her own. “On the one hand […], the illusion that by making those who already have everything prosper, it trickles down to everyone else, while each time the opposite happens.On the other hand, a program “for real equality, for emancipation, for the care of everyone, for our young people as well as our elders, for attention to others and to future generations”. Calling for a “Europe that protects, a secular, social and ecological Republic” Anne Hidalgo is enthusiastic that “the real presidential debate is finally beginning”.
Eric Zemmour: “There you are finally”
“France asked me to tell you that you failed.”Addressing Emmanuel Macron in a video posted on his YouTube channel entitled “The time of the balance sheet”, Eric Zemmour revives the codes of its own announcement in the presidential election. Facing the camera, dramatic music and theatrical sequences, the Reconquest candidate wants to be the spokesperson for the people: “France […] gave me a message for you […]. The French men and women have asked me to tell you that they are afraid for their children, for their grandchildren, for their parents, for their grandparents and for their country. Accusing the President of having made France “unlivable” Eric Zemmour attacks “arrogance” of the government. But the nationalist candidate welcomes it: the “face to face”that the “Whole France” waited go “be able to start” . Just that.
Yannick Jadot: “The same five-year period in worse”
“What Emmanuel Macron is proposing is the same five-year term only worse.” Yannick Jadot, questioned on Public Senate on Emmanuel Macron’s letter, did not fail to strongly criticize the President’s record. “After five years, we have the rich who are richer, the poor who are poorer, more inequalities, we have territorial fractures like we have never seen in our country, a president condemned twice by the courts for climate inaction and France is the only European country that has failed to meet its renewable energy targets.”The green candidate also mocked the various “mea culpa”by Emmanuel Macron, alluding to the President’s appearance on TF1 in December, “a joke” according to him.
Rebellious France: “We could have expected a letter of apology first”
If Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not (yet) made a statement about Emmanuel Macron’s candidacy for the presidency, his campaign manager, Manuel Bompard, did not fail to react on BFM TV. “We could have expected a letter of apology, he chose to write a letter of application”, he laughs like this. He is also ironic about the publicity that the outgoing president offers himself with a publication in all the regional press.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: a “casual entry into the countryside”
The candidate of Debout la France split a bitter tweet in reaction to the letter “hollow like a drum” of Emmanuel Macron who would take the French for “fools” . “French people, don’t be fooled by Emmanuel Macron’s grandiloquent and hollow letter! Meditate on this proverb: “If someone cheats on you once, shame on him. If someone cheats on you twice: shame on you”. reacted Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. Qualifying an entry into the campaign “casual and on the sly” which only targets one “record abstention on election day”,the sovereignist calls on the French to resume their “fate in hand”going to vote in April.
Fabien Roussel: “Turn the page”
The communist candidate spoke on the missive of the President by means of a relatively sober tweet. “After five years, Macron sends a letter to the French. But the skyrocketing bills are every month. Salaries and pensions which stagnate, the same. Turning the page, allowing the French to reconnect with happy days, that’s my ambition.declared Fabien Roussel.
Nathalie Arthaud: “The electoral cinema continues”
Opposing the cap of president to that of candidate, Nathalie Arthaud, she castigates a speech that she considers double on the part of Emmanuel Macron: one day warlord and another optimistic candidate for the presidential election. “The electoral cinema continues with a new actor”quips the candidate of Lutte Ouvrière.
Jean Lassalle, he has not yet reacted to the announcement of the outgoing president.