oppositions angry after Macron’s declarations on “civil war”

This is in no way a surprise. Less than five days before the early legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron’s shocking remarks are making his opponents react. Guest on the “Génération Do It Yourself” podcast on Monday, the President of the Republic considered that the programs of “two extremes” would lead “to the civil war” in the event of victory for one or the other on July 7.

That of the National Rally and its allies first. “The response of the far right” in terms of insecurity, “because it refers people either to a religion or to an origin, (…) it divides and it pushes to civil war.” Then that of the New Popular Front. Insoumise France would propose “a form of communitarianism… a little electoral”. “It is also the civil war behind it, because it is first of all referring people exclusively to their religious or community affiliation”, he pointed out. Questioned Monday evening in the wake of these declarations, the representatives of both blocs raised their voices against the head of state.

Starting with the boss of the RN whose latest Ifop-Fiducial “rolling” for Le Figaro, LCI, and Sud Radio, published Monday, give him a glimpse of a relative majority on July 7. On M6, Jordan Bardella recalled that a “President of the Republic should not say that”. “I want to restore security for all French people”insisted the nationalist MEP, considering that the head of state “scares the French”.

“The civil war is him”

On the other side of the political spectrum, the leader of La France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigated Emmanuel Macron on France 2 “still there” pour “set on fire”. “The civil war for the moment is he who started it in New Caledonia”added the former presidential candidate, advising the head of state to “turn your tongue seven times in your mouth” before expressing yourself. “Emmanuel Macron organized the rise of the far right for seven years. The civil war is him”, also denounced LFI MP Clémence Guetté. As for the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, he judged “unacceptable» presidential statements. “Putting on the same level the Popular Front which wants to defend an ecological and social Republic and the extreme right which wants to return to our fundamental principles such as the rights of the soil, which even Vichy had not dared to do, is a shame”he mocked.

Guest of France 5, on the sidelines of his interview given to Figaro , Prime Minister Gabriel Attal did not endorse the terms of the President of the Republic, while reproaching the two blocs for having “hate as fuel” and contribute “to pit one against the other” with a “form of confessionalization of politics”. “Probably the victory of the extremes, of the extreme right, would liberate” of the “impulses and could actually lead to violence.”