THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION CONSIDERED PRESIDENT'S REMARKS CONTEMPT&UNSATISFACTORY

USPA NEWS - French President Macron addressed the French people, today at 1:pm, (Tf1, France 2 TV Chanel Broadcasters), for Elysee Palace, in a 30 minutes interview format. It was conducted by the two journalists Julian Bugier France 2, and Marie Sophie Lacarrau, TF1. These Presidential remarks were expected for days, by the protesters and unionists. We are publishing a summary of that address and reactions from the unionists and political opponents. The leader of the extreme left, and others have expressed their anger and seen the President's address "contempt and unsatisfactory" "useless". Unionist leader if CFDT, Laurent Berger, accused the President of "Deny and lies". They call for another large general protest tomorrow, Thursday 2 March2023

THE REFORM PENSION BILL WAS ADOPTED ON MARCH 20TH, AND IS TO BE EXAMINED BY CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL Thousands of protesters against the pension reform bill, are expressing their anger, in the streets throughout France, yet PM Elisabeth Borne’s government narrowly escaped the overthrow of her government, with nine votes (278 deputies voted for the motion of censure, while 287 votes were needed in response to the 49.3 statement triggered by the PM on Thursday March 15. This means, that the bill was adopted, and shall be validated by the Constitutional Council (triggered by National Rally Marine Le Pen’s Party and PM Elisabeth Borne, two days ago).

THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION CONSIDERED THE PRESIDENT'S REMARKS CONTEMPT AND UNSATISFACTORY
The leader of the extreme left, Jean Luc Melenchon, express his anger over the President Macron’s address LFI (La France Insoumise, NUPES).
The leader of the far left, LFI Jean-Luc Melenchon considered that the intervention of the President Macron, contemptuous: "traditional marks of contempt" of Emmanuel Macron. "He will have put his imagination on strike, it's a welcome contribution," he added. "How can we, when the country is sinking into an impasse, have only hazy and usual projects for the day after tomorrow as the only answer? How can we lie with so much arrogance?", a t - he says very upset.
Jean Luc Melenchon LFI's Party has 79 MPS' included in the 141 MP’s alliance called NUPES, comprising also 25 MP's socialists, 25 MP's Ecologists and 12 Communists, versus the 234 Presidential Majority, composed of 162 Renaissance Emmanuel Macron's Party, 45 Centrist MODEM Centrist Party, 27 Horizon Party, out of 577 seats at national Assembly, not to mention that Marine Le Pen's Party national Rally has 89 MP's. This configuration explains, the lack of absolute majority to the current government.

François Ruffin, another figure in the LFI party, (ex-journalist turned Somme MP) and who supports strike movements, like the one today, the waste treatment depot in Issy-les-Moulineaux. "He spoke for two minutes about pension reform in a half-hour general policy speech", when he "had to find a path of appeasement" on pensions, the deputy was irritated, and rebellious as usual, "There were three options: resignation, withdrawal, referendum, but none were mentioned," he castigated, saying he had "no answer" to give to the social crisis in course. "What is happening is in the depths of the country. (...) We have the impression that he is at a cocktail party, as if everything was calm in th

Marine Tondelier, leader of the Ecologist Party, tweeted her anger and said she was "chilled by the president's demonstration of self-satisfaction" who, in her eyes, made "offensive remarks".

"Emmanuel Macron has once again delivered an indigestible performance to us, an accumulation of small contemptuous phrases. A chilling and contemptuous President", lambasted his EELV party on Twitter.

The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, considers that the head of state will worsen the situation after his address "Emmanuel Macron has put more explosive on an already well lit inferno", criticized the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure after the television interview with the Head of State. "It's amazing, he is in absolute denial," he said from the National Assembly. "I fear that he has put no more explosives on an already well lit inferno", he added, in particular by "disqualifying the unions".

Laure Lavalette, iconic MP for Var and spokesperson for the RN (National Rally) group, believes that President Emmanuel Macron is cheeky and far from the suffering of the French. "His little facial expressions, his very condescending sides ... It looked like a pretty insolent teenager", "The motion of censure did not pass to within nine votes, that should have brought modesty. But his ego did not have equal to the protest in the street, he has not seen a Frenchman for a long time, he is far from the French who are suffering", she accused, castigating "a rather phenomenal nerve". She now hopes that her party's appeal to the Constitutional Council will bear fruit and will be able to block the text. Source Tf1 TV, LCI TV

UNIONIST LEADERS ARE EVEN MORE ANGER AND ACCUSE PRESIDENT MACRON OF LIE AND "DENI" AND "CONTEMPT" The secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez very angry, following the interview with the head of state Macron, and considered that it was " a smirk on their face and contempt for the millions of people who demonstrate "after Emmanuel Macron's interview. "It's 'everything is fine, I'm doing everything well, nothing is happening in the street'. (...) He is sure of himself, of what he is doing, it's serious", irritated the trade unionist. "There is no answer." "He considers that there was no alternative proposal, but that the CGT like the other trade unions I suppose have done, but he considers that it is only valid if we agree with him. ", he added. Before criticizing "total aberrations", in particular a confusion according to him between taxes and contributions. "It becomes a caricature this President of the Republic", he lambasted. The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger meanwhile accused the President of the Republic on Wednesday of having lied about the CFDT's position on pensions, "to hide his inability to find a majority to vote for his unjust reform". and qualifies President Macron's remarks as "Denial and lies! The CFDT has a pension reform project. Macron 2019 had understood this, he had taken up our ambition for a universal system. Macron 2023 is remaking history and lying about CFDT to hide its inability to find a majority to vote for its unjust reform", he reacted on Twitter.