Political forces react to Emmanuel Macron’s letter to the French

The head of state broke his silence on Wednesday to send a letter via the regional press and France Bleu, three days after the legislative elections. A letter that provoked anger on the left.

His word was expected. Three days after the result of the legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron published a letter to the French people on Wednesday, July 10, in the regional press and on France Bleu. In it, the President of the Republic asks the “republican forces” of “building a solid majority” and, he said, “allow a little time to build these compromises with serenity and respect for everyone”The head of state also judges that “nobody took it away” during the early legislative elections. Following the publication of this letter, thePolitical forces were quick to react, particularly within the New Popular Front.

The left is up in arms

Members of the New Popular Front criticize the initiative of the President of the Republic. “In his letter, Emmanuel Macron persists in denial and refuses to accept his defeat”reacts LFI MEP Manon Aubry on the social network X. The rebellious MP for Seine-Saint-Denis, Aurélie Trouvé, guest of franceinfo, believes that Emmanuel Macron “undertakes an anti-democratic coup”. For Clémence Guétté, rebellious deputy of Val-de-Marne, this letter is not “not up to the mark with history”. “More alone than ever, Emmanuel Macron is brutal”she adds on X. “It is the return of the royal right of veto on universal suffrage”denounces Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

François Ruffin, New Popular Front (ex-LFI) MP for the Somme, criticises the “way of governing” by Emmanuel Macron “with arrogance and all power” that “No one on the left wants to reproduce”. “Let him let us work, he adds, to change people’s lives, a little, for the better“.

“Emmanuel Macron decided on this dissolution alone. Now let him draw the consequences of his result.“, believes Marine Tondelier. “Institutional logic dictates that he call the party leaders of the New Popular Front to ask us to propose the name of a Prime Minister and a government.”writes about X the leader of the Ecologists.

The RN denounces “unworthy arrangements”

On the National Rally side, Emmanuel Marcron’s text is also being severely judged. “Irresponsible!” condemns Jordan Bardalla. “Emmanuel Macron is organising the paralysis of the country by positioning the extreme left at the gates of power, after unworthy arrangements. His message is now: sort it out yourselves”reacts to X the president of the National Rally. Marine Le Pen denounces the “unworthy circus” of the President of the Republic. “If I understand correctly, in his letter, Emmanuel Macron proposes to block LFI, which he helped to elect three days ago and thanks to whom the Renaissance deputies were elected, also three days ago…”she wrote on X.

RN MP for Var Laure Lavalette castigates “absolutely aberrant cynicism”accusing the head of state of having “organized the institutional and political impasse in which we find ourselves”. “Emmanuel Macron is once again making fun of the French”believes Jean-Philippe Tanguy, RN MP for the Somme. “The RN has had three electoral victories, there is no question that Emmanuel Macron claims to erase them” with his letter to the French, he assures.

The presidential camp divided

The Renaissance party and its allies seem divided. On one side, the deputy Karl Olive, ex-LR, recalls that his “red lines with the New Popular Front (are) Maginot lines”accusing the left-wing alliance of being, according to him, “for the disarmament of the police”, “the increase” And “the creation of taxes”. The president of the Horizons group in the Assembly, Laurent Marcangeli, on the contrary calls for the formation of a government “as broad as possible, which would start from the LR and go all the way to the social democrats (…), even the Communist Party and the ecologists”.

Dominique Faure, Minister Delegate for Local Authorities and Rural Affairs of France, states for his part: “have confidence in the ability of each and every person to build a central coalition that unites the social-democratic left to the republican right that the President of the Republic calls for”.

“I think that the moment we are going through requires that we go beyond partisan postures and seek to build bridges with opposing parties in the elections”adds Renaissance MP Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade. However, he hopes that this construction will be done without the RN and without LFI, which are “protest parties which undermine the values ​​of the Republic”.

The right does not want to be in a coalition

Among the Republicans, the letter from the head of state was received coolly. Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate, dismissed the hypothesis of seeing the right enter into a grand coalition. “The coalition is arithmetically impossible. Everything opposes us to the left”he believes. “The only way forward that I see is the appointment of a Prime Minister of public interest, free from partisan games and whose personal equation will bring people together. It is a way out of an elusive majority.”.

LLR MP for Moselle Fabien di Filippo is ironic: “Emmanuel Macron asks the political forces to demonstrate all the qualities that he has cruelly lacked for several years at the head of our country”Before the publication of the letter, Laurent Wauquiez, elected head of the LR parliamentary group, renamed “republican right”, had spoken out in favour of a “legislative pact” and no ““government coalitions”.