“Responsibilities” and “compromise”: during his television interview on July 14, Emmanuel Macron wanted to play the opening, this Thursday, on this “day of national unity”, as he wanted to emphasize.
After a difficult start for the new deputies of the presidential majority, the President of the Republic tried to call the oppositions to dialogue, to which the latter hastened to respond.
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“He will have spent his interview twisting the truth to hide his failures”
The First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, tweeted sharply on the desire for agreement expressed by the Head of State: “I have tried in vain to seize all opportunities for compromise with Emmanuel Macron . Wages, unemployment insurance, pensions, uberisation of work, tax on superprofits: its course is clear. His outstretched hand does not concern us, ”said the deputy for Seine-et-Marne.
Other officials blamed him for a form of denial. The president of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, judges “Macron disloyal (…) because he will have spent his interview twisting the truth to hide his failures”. When Laurent Jacobelli, deputy of the National Rally, warns “those who thought that Emmanuel Macron could change. He is obtuse, stubborn, he will never change. (…) He is a President of the Republic above ground who has understood nothing. »
“Hello ego”
A short sentence from Emmanuel Macron will not have failed to make his opponents react, the latter declaring: “Some had wanted to see me as Jupiter, it’s more Vulcan, that is to say at the forge”. The opportunity for the rebel Manuel Bompard to spin the mythological metaphor: “Macron thinks he is Vulcan. Its hammer strikes the unemployed, the poor, employees condemned to work until 65 years. But it spares the crisis profiteers and the ultra-rich on whom there will be no constraint. Strong with the weak, weak with the strong! »
The national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou also went there with his caustic tweet: “Impossible to imagine yourself other than as a God. Hello ego. »