oppositions scandalized by Emmanuel Macron's remarks in Mayotte

“If it wasn’t France you would be 10,000 times more in trouble!”: the remarks made by Emmanuel Macron in Mayotte in the face of the anger of poor residents after the passage of Cyclone Chido were strongly denounced on Friday by opponents.

Taken to task and booed Thursday evening by a crowd of shouting people “Macron resignation” At the end of his first day in the devastated French archipelago, the head of state lost his temper.

“Don’t pit people against each other! If you pit people against each other, we're screwed, because you're happy to be in France. Because if it wasn’t France you would be 10,000 times more in trouble!”shouted the president. “There is no place in the Indian Ocean where we help people so much”he pleaded.

For the president of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly Éric Coquerel, this exchange “self-explanatory”. “Message to those who believe that he must not leave: who imagines this still possible for 30 months?” until the end of the presidential term in 2027, the deputy from La France insoumise asked about X.

“Emmanuel Macron went there in (…) an arrogant and lesson-giving attitude. (…) I saw him in a shirt saying “are you proud to be French?” (…) That’s not the subject actually”reacted for her part the environmentalist MP Sandrine Rousseau on France 2. “We have the greatest human catastrophe since the Second World War and we are putting on a Macron show. It's not up to par.”she lamented.

“Contempt”

On the National Rally side, MP Sébastien Chenu estimated on RTL that these words were not likely to “to comfort our Mahorese compatriots who, through this kind of expression, always have the feeling of being treated separately”.

“What contempt and arrogance towards these French people who are suffering from a natural disaster which is ravaging the Island of Mayotte! Emmanuel Macron's behavior has definitely never been up to the crucial challenges of our great nation.also denounced, more strongly, the RN deputy Christophe Bentz.

Emmanuel Macron was due to conclude his two-day visit to Mayotte on Friday by chairing a crisis meeting with the main ministers concerned and state services.