Majority

- Elisabeth Borne, Prime Minister: "Emmanuel Macron has formulated it forcefully: +We have before us 100 days of appeasement, unity, ambition and action in the service of France+. I will present my Government's road map next week."

- Stéphane Séjourné, Secretary General of Renaissance: "Responding to the concerns expressed by our fellow citizens in recent months while building a more independent country, a more just and united nation in a stronger Europe: this is the course set by Emmanuel Macron. Renaissance will put all its strength and energy into it."

- Sacha Houlié, Renaissance MP: "Work and wealth sharing, Justice and republican order, social progress and public services, the projects presented by the president correspond to the demands of our fellow citizens. We will be there, alongside the Prime Minister, to make these promises a reality."

Left

Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) at a press conference in Paris on March 27, 2023 © Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP/Archives

- Jean-Luc Mélenchon, La France insoumise: "Unreal Macron. Completely out of reality, assumes the theft of two years of freedom. The pots and pans sound fairer."

- Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI deputies: "There is only Emmanuel Macron to believe in Emmanuel Macron. The bunkerized President has nothing to offer the country. We readily prefer the sound of pans to our empty words. On May 1, he was reminded that we do not govern against the people."

- Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS: "From the palace of the bogged down the pyromaniac president promises 100 days to extinguish the fire he feeds daily".

- Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF: "Those who did not listen have lost nothing".

- Cyrielle Chatelain, leader of the Green deputies: "Emmanuel Macron announces nothing, does not change anything. It does not take the measure of the anger or the extent of the social and environmental crisis. The speech of an abysmal void of a President drunk with his own word".

Right

LR president Eric Ciotti on April 4, 2023 in Paris © Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP/Archives

- Eric Ciotti, boss of LR: "I welcome with skepticism this long catalogue of pious wishes which brings neither direction nor novelty, despite objectives that are as laudable as they are obvious. The President of the Republic has not sketched any challenge and does not open any concrete perspective: the method will obviously not change. Emmanuel Macron seemed to begin tonight a presidential mandate with which he has been invested for six years."

- Bruno Retailleau, boss of the LR senators: "An expected speech, Emmanuel Macron as usual: full of certainties and promises of tomorrow that sing. But no questioning, no change of method, no break in a policy that has disappointed for 6 years."

Far right

- Marine Le Pen, patron saint of RN deputies: "By announcing the withdrawal of the pension reform or the referendum, Emmanuel Macron could have rebuilt the link with the French tonight. He again chose to turn his back on them and ignore their suffering. This disconnected, solitary and obtuse practice of power heralds the continuation of a five-year period of contempt, indifference and brutality from which we will have to get out through the ballot box."

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