Emmanuel Macron was re-elected as President of the Republic on Sunday April 24, with 58.8% votes against Marine Le Pen, according to the Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimate for France Télévisions, Radio France, France 24, the parliamentary channels and Le Parisien. The National Rally candidate won 41.2% of the vote. Abstention stands at 28.2%, according to the same study.
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“A feat to be elected after crises of all kinds”, for Eric Woerth
“It’s a clear and clear victory”, reacts on franceinfo Eric Woerth, deputy of Oise, related LREM, after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron. “A figure that cannot be discussed”, adds Eric Woerth. He points to the abstention figure “who should we be concerned about”. “We will have to respond to this with results”assures the deputy.
Eric Woerth recalls that it is “the first time a president has been re-elected in office outside of a cohabitation”. According to him, it is “a feat to be elected after crises of all kinds”: the Covid-19the crisis of“yellow vests”, and the war in Ukraine. He feels that we owe it to “the ability to unite, to come together” of Emmanuel Macron, and to his “a way of having a vision for the future to which we can cling. Only Emmanuel Macron had a positive vision of France”.
Jean Castex salutes “a victory rich in meaning”
“The figures are very eloquent, they speak for themselves”, abounds François Bayrou. For the boss of the MoDem and mayor of Pau, guest of France 2, this re-election which comes after “five years of hardship” is “recognition by the French that it was the best choice for the country”
“It is a victory rich in political significance”, believes for his part the Prime Minister Jean Castex. After the speech of the re-elected president, at the Champ-de-Mars, he was delighted “both from the clean re-election of Emmanuel Macron and from the defeat of Mrs. Le Pen and far-right ideas”. For Jean Castex, the French people “carried strong messages” and the president “is right to say that this victory obliges him, that France is going through a strong crisis”evoking “divides” and “misunderstandings” in the country.
The RN castigates an anti-Le Pen “coalition”
“I fear the third social round that will take place in the streets”, declared on France 2 the mayor RN of Perpignan Louis Aliot. He points “the coalition of all those who are against” Marine Le Pen. “From Mr. Mélenchon to Mr. Ferrand, everyone wanted five more years of Mr. Macron. They will have them.” Louis Aliot imagines “a few difficult months ahead”.
The RN mayor of Perpignan believes that between “the positions of Mélenchon and the program defended” by Richard Ferrand, LREM President of the National Assembly, “there is a big gap that will not be easy to make”.
Louis Aliot is waiting now “Let the political class do its self-criticism”. He believes that France will “towards a political recomposition”. The elected RN aims for the legislative elections “to organize a counter-power, a popular bloc which must confront this elite bloc”.
LFI denounces “a vote by default”
“That vote was essentially a default vote, halfhearted, a block vote that worked,” says on franceinfo Adrien Quatennens, deputy of La France insoumise du Nord about the re-election of Emmnuel Macron. He even asserts that “Marine Le Pen has succeeded in having a hated outgoing president re-elected who carries a project of nameless social brutality”.
According to Adrien Quatennens, the novelty of this election is “the constitution of a popular pole around Jean-Luc Mélenchon”. “My turn, continues the deputy LFII ask the French to prepare for a great mobilization” for the legislative elections. For the chosen one from the North, “these elections can function as a third round”. Insubordinate France has, he says, “vocation to expand this popular pole to build an alternative majority in the Assembly and govern this country”.
Emmanuel Macron is “a president who knows that he was very badly elected, who knows that he is hated by part of the French, and who was elected in an ocean of abstention”, estimated Sunday on franceinfo Manon Aubry, MEP LF. She calls on the president to consider his re-election as “a warning”. “Do not take it as a blank check to continue your anti-social policies in the next five years”launches the MEP.
“A vote of despair” for LR
“Democracy expressed itself clearly in a particular context”, analysis on France 2 Christian Jacob, president of the LR party, after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron as President of the Republic. This context is according to him “that of the Covid, that of the war in Ukraine” but also “the one that Emmanuel Macron wanted to put in place”. The president wanted “at all costs to have this face to face with Marine Le Pen, because it was for him the assurance of winningr”, believes Christian Jacob. “He did everything for it.”
The president of the Republicans believes that there is “never had such a vote of despair in France”. “It is the result of the action of the parliamentary majority for five years. Never has the result of extremes been at this level in France”, he adds.
In view of the legislative elections next June, Christian Jacob believes that his party can rely on “elected on the ground. The Republicans “have this grounding in the field”, he insists. “It is from there that we want to bounce back”.
EELV “does not trust” Emmanuel Macron
“It is a huge relief that the far right is beaten,” reacts on franceinfo Julien Bayou, the national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, while affirming that the outgoing president had been elected “by default”. “He needs to hear this, we don’t give him any credit,” insists the environmentalist. “He has already made a lot of green speeches, we don’t trust him”.
For the legislative elections, Julien Bayou calls for a left-wing coalition to send a “maximum of ecological and left-wing deputies, rebels, socialists, communists, in the Assembly”. He believes that La France insoumise must “taking responsibility” after Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s score in the first round. “Rather than a popular union, we must assume a coalition with the forces that can find themselves on a program, major measures”.
“Emmanuel Macron should not take the melon”, launches Fabien Roussel
“We must take note of the result”reacted Sunday, April 24 on France 2 Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the Communist Party, after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron to the Presidency of the Republic. “But the President of the Republic, his ministers and his government should not take the melon, it’s not the season”tempers the former presidential candidate.
Fabien Roussel recalls that the French who gave their vote to Emmanuel Macron, did not all “voted for the project carried by LREM and the President of the Republic”. “It would be a mistake to believe that, he launches to the address of the majority, and be mistaken than to believe that they will be able unfold all the policy he [Emmanuel Macron] has been able to present, the worst he has presented during this election.” On the subject of the pension reform wanted by the re-elected president, Fabien Roussel believes that Emmanuel Macron should not believe “that he will be able to implement it”.