Emmanuel Macron’s speech, a foretaste of his campaign program for the presidential election? – LCI

Was it a President-candidate who took the floor this Tuesday evening at 8 p.m.? Beyond a few announcements on the health plan, such as the validity of the health pass conditional on a third dose for those 65 and over, Emmanuel Macron hinted at what could be his program for the presidential campaign and the directions that his second term if re-elected.

First of all, the head of state insisted at length on the value of work and praised his reform of unemployment insurance, believing that it was not acceptable for job vacancies to remain unfilled at the time. hour when 3 million French people are still unemployed, and reaffirming that work should always be more remunerative than inactivity. Above all, he confirmed that the pension reform could not be relaunched, but felt that “From 2022, to preserve the pensions of our retirees and solidarity between our generations, it will be necessary to take clear decisions” on this subject.

He reaffirmed what would guide him to carry out this campaign pledge of 2017: “move towards a fairer system by abolishing special schemes, harmonizing the rules between public and private and ensuring that at the end of a full career, no pension can be less than 1000 euros” and “finally go towards more freedom” by allowing the French to leave gradually or to work beyond the legal age.

Emmanuel Macron also gave clues about his positions and proposals in favor of the fight against global warming and energy production. He confirmed his pro-nuclear orientations, announcing that France was going to build new reactors on its soil and underlined the advantages of this energy. “We will, for the first time in decades, relaunch the construction of nuclear reactors in our country and continue to develop renewable energies”, he said, without giving more detail at this point. That “to guarantee the energy independence of France, to guarantee the electricity supply of our country and to achieve our objectives, in particular carbon neutrality in 2050”.

He also indicated that it was necessary “continue and strengthen our actions to fight violence against women, to better protect our children”, consolidate France’s position as a “great educational, industrial and agricultural power” or “better protect our external borders”, “better regulate the digital giants”.

At the end of his speech, all of Emmanuel Macron’s future presidential opponents felt that he had taken the pretext of the health crisis to make a pre-campaign speech. “The third dose will therefore have been only an excuse to make a campaign speech of which almost all the statements are eminently questionable”, tweeted the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen. On LCI, the rebellious candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticized a “abnormal mix of genres”. “Clearly, he is a candidate, and his speaking time is not counted as such”, he said.

The First Secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure estimated that the Head of State could have concluded his speech by announcing his candidacy for re-election. “It was just missing the last sentence: ‘This is the reason why I am again a candidate for the presidency of the Republic” “.