Macron on TF1: “denial of reality”, “disconnected as never” … opposition critics fuse

2023-05-16 15:05:06

He did not convince everyone, and the oppositions were not shy to say so. Emmanuel Macron once again tried to turn the page on pension reform during an interview with TF1’s 20 Hours newspaper on Monday evening. Purchasing power, investments, diplomacy… The topics discussed were numerous, offering as many weapons to the opponents of the President of the Republic.

Among them, Marine Le Pen denounced, on Twitter, the “denial of reality” of the head of state, assuring that the RN was ready to “succeed where” the majority had “failed”.

Over the interviews, it seems that Emmanuel Macron is denying the reality of Macronism. Impoverishment of the middle classes, savagery of society, contempt for democracy… A severe but fair self-portrait!

We are ready to succeed where they failed.

– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) May 15, 2023

On the other side of the political spectrum, LFI deputy François Ruffin found that Emmanuel Macron was “completely above ground” and judged that the timetable presented by the Head of State was “rather vague”, pointing in particular finger the announcement of the tax reduction for the middle classes planned … By 2027. “He has nothing to offer on” the question of wages, he struck on BFMTV this Monday evening.

This Tuesday morning, Clémentine Autain regretted that the Head of State had “recalled his stubbornness on pensions”. For the elected LFI, guest on LCI“there was, last night, a political operation which aimed to move the subject of the conversation”, but no “concrete declaration”.

Critics from all sides

In the same camp, Manuel Bompard considered that the president had carried out “yet another exercise in self-satisfaction, contempt and lies. (…) We understand why 65% ​​of French people no longer listen to it”. Emmanuel Macron is “disconnected as never before”, for Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group at the National Assembly.

On the day of the great feast at Versailles, #Macron20h deign to speak to the people. But to say what?
Inflation? He can’t do anything, we’ll see in the fall.
The withdrawal of the pension reform?
No way, he doesn’t want to lose face.
In short, disconnected as ever.

— Mathilde Panot (@MathildePanot) May 15, 2023

Even among the LRs, however dredged up by the government during the pension reform sequence, Emmanuel Macron did not convince. “A bit of a feeling that the President spoke to say nothing,” commented Éric Ciotti on Twitter.

On the side of the PS, Olivier Faure criticized the “same refrain” from a “minority” president who “despises 9 out of 10 active people, all the unions and the National Assembly”.