School, tax cuts for the middle classes from 2025, work remuneration and “birth leave”… During a major press conference at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron presented, Tuesday January 16, the main axes of the action he intends to implement with his new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal. Political reactions, already numerous on Tuesday evening, multiply on Wednesday while details are awaited following the announcements of the Head of State. Follow our live stream.
“A clumsy statement”, but “indulgence” for Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. The Head of State defended the new Minister of National Education, criticized for her justification of sending her children to private school. “The minister made a public statement that was clumsy. She apologized for it, she did the right thing”reacted Emmanuel Macron. “I have rather indulgence, because I happened to have comments, at the very beginning of my political responsibilities, which had hurt” .
Towards an overhaul of parental leave and a plan against infertility. The President of the Republic spoke of a new “birth leave” and one “great plan of struggle” against infertility. Positions that provoke a reaction on the left. “Being alarmed by infertility without being interested in the causes, such as insecticides and pesticides, had to be daring”reacted Julien Bayou, EELV deputy from Paris.
Critical reactions. “The big meeting with the Nation has turned into yet another endless chatter,” reacted the president of the National Rally group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, on. Her counterpart from France Insoumise, Mathilde Panot, estimated on France 2 that the head of state had “showed a deeply reactionary side” and painted the picture of a “Sepia France”.