“Arrogant”, “above ground”, “disdainful”. Left-wing elected officials strongly denounced the words of Emmanuel Macron, questioned this Wednesday about his pension reform, which he described as “necessary”.
Starting with the rebels who quickly reacted on social networks to the president’s words. The head of the La France Insoumise deputies in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, judged the president “on the ground, arrogant, a liar, irresponsible.”
“However, he only had 4 words to say: I withdraw my reform. Congratulations to those who endured these 30 minutes of absolute emptiness”, Mathilde Panot wrote again on Twitter.
A “chaos” strategy
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also denounced Emmanuel Macron’s “traditional displays of contempt” and “arrogance”, when François Ruffin accused the president of “leading a strategy of chaos”.
“He manages to unite François Ruffin, Laurent Berger, Charles de Courson and Léna Situations, all these people agree that we do not want this reform. Instead of having responsible interlocutors, such as the unions, he humiliates them, neglects them, produces excesses, I think it is an election of the President of the Republic”, estimated the deputy LFI of the Somme on our antenna.
“Macron empties the drum on a fire that he had already lit”
The same story on the side of the socialists, and in particular of the party’s first secretary Olivier Faure who believes that the head of state “does not understand the French” whom he presents, according to him, as “vagues addicted to public aid” . “.
“Macron empties the drum into a brazier that he had already lit,” he hammered on Twitter.
The leader of the deputies of the PS Boris Vallaud sees a side “Sarkozy on the form”, “Fillon on the substance” and “Pasqua on the maintenance of order”, thus referring to the media style of Emmanuel Macron, in his defense of the reform social security and in the maintenance of the questioned order of the spontaneous mobilizations against him in recent days.
Marine Tondelier “frozen” after the president’s statements
Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the Europa Ecologie-Les Verts party, said she was “frozen” by “the president’s display of self-satisfaction”, also describing his comments as “disparaging” and “offensive”.
The green deputy for Paris Sandrine Rousseau condemned the “irresponsibility” of this speech.
Emmanuel Macron affirmed his desire for the pension reform to enter into force at the end of the year and defended its “necessary” nature, at the same time assuring that “it is not a pleasure” to do so.
Source: BFM TV
