After the left, the right and the far right in turn attack Emmanuel Macron, with again the “fuel question” at the heart of the criticism.
“While the French wait at the pump, Emmanuel Macron refuses to lower fuel taxes,” writes on X Sébastien Chenu (RN), who emphasizes that “our European neighbors are acting to protect their purchasing power.” “And France? », he asks.
The RN deputy for Loiret, Thomas Ménage, for his part judges the interview “absolutely lunar (not to say twilight)”. After “1,200 billion in debt”, the “Mozart of finance” “laments about his own balance sheet”, he quips, before concluding: “It is time for the State to SAVE”.
On the LR side, Pierre-Henri Dumont, spokesperson for Bruno Retailleau, sees this as a sign of “powerlessness”, “budgetary, lack of structural reforms”, and “political, following the dissolution”. According to him, the urgency is to “suspend the EWCs”. He also promises that “in May”, with Bruno Retailleau, they will “rebuild” the system “to regain prosperity”.
On franceinfo, Philippe Balard, RN deputy for Oise and party spokesperson, denounced “a streak of self-satisfaction, as we are used to with Emmanuel Macron”, our colleagues report. According to him, “the only possible solution is to lower taxes”, by reducing VAT from 20% to 5.5%, because “a terrible recessive effect is on the horizon”.
Finally, still on franceinfo, François-Xavier Bellamy, vice-president of the Republicans, believes that the head of state “cannot tell the French that they are condemned to be spectators of an economic and social catastrophe without the means to act”. The MEP recognizes that “the crisis is real”, but affirms that “there are levers to act” and that “the international situation is not responsible for everything”.
