Jacques Serais / Photo credit: Christophe Ena / POOL / AFP 19:49 pm, July 21, 2023

The day after the reshuffle, Emmanuel Macron spoke for 25 minutes this Friday morning at the opening of the Council of Ministers. The Head of State renewed his confidence in Elisabeth Borne before evoking the main projects that await her government. A speech that did not convince the oppositions.

Reactions are going well after Emmanuel Macron's speech. This Friday morning, the day after the reshuffle, the president spoke at the opening of the Council of Ministers. After renewing his confidence in Élisabeth Borne, he drew up the main projects awaiting the government, from reindustrialization to full employment, including schools, ecological planning and republican order.

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But on both the left and the right, this speech is strongly criticized. "Reshuffle, Macron's speech... Nothing impacts anymore," writes Jean-Luc Mélenchon. For the leader Insoumis, Macron "over the water, drifts randomly from the moods of the presidential monarch".

The same goes for the Socialist Party: "He is a president who has no plans for the country. He applied his program, namely to reform pensions and today he does not know where he is going. And that's why we saw all the mess around the announcement of this appointment, "denounces the deputy of the Eure, Philippe Brun.

#Remaniement, speech of #Macron, nothing impacts. Macronia over the water drifts randomly from the moods of the presidential monarch.

— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) July 21, 2023

"Thank you for this confession"

On the right, reactions are just as strong. "What is striking in Emmanuel Macron's speech is the gulf between his words and his actions, his promises and his results, the picture he draws and the reality that imposes itself on all French people. A Potemkin power that cowers while the France sinks, "launches on Twitter the boss of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau.

Independence, efficiency, republican order, demands in terms of public spending...
What is striking about @EmmanuelMacron's speech is the gulf between his words and his actions, his promises and his results, the picture he draws and the reality that imposes itself on all ...

— Bruno Retailleau (@BrunoRetailleau) July 21, 2023

On the side of the National Rally, the deputy Laure Lavalette takes the president at his word when he explains having chosen continuity. "Thank you for this confession," she scoffs, while Emmanuel Macron has planned to speak again by the end of the weekend, this time not to his ministers, but to the French.