Spectator: Macron wrote a desperate letter after the election, sparking anger in France
Macron, while attending a NATO summit in Washington, broke his silence after France’s parliamentary elections and sent a desperate letter to local newspapers declaring that “victory went to no one” and made a vague call for political forces to create a “solid majority”, prompting anger in France, Spectator reported.
“This letter to voters is the most tone-deaf statement by a president who has led France into a political quagmire. It is the same as if Winston Churchill had announced in the Hastings Chronicle (an old British newspaper. – Ed.) that Britain would fight on the beaches with buckets and spades,” the piece notes.
Macron’s written appeal, the author of the article notes, caused discontent in the country among both right-wing and left-wing forces: thus, the EP deputy from Melanchonists Manon Aubry called the president with his idea of a “solid majority” detached from reality, and Marie Le Pen compared what happened to a “shameful circus”, saying that Macron is thus going to block the New Popular Front, which he himself helped to win. The CNEWS news channel was scornful of the president’s address and emphasised that vague language and calls to “give a little more time” are the responsibilities of the current government, Spectator reported.
“A unique case in the democratic world: the president refuses to recognise the results of a vote that put the New People’s Front in first place in terms of votes and seats in the Assembly. <…> Enough is enough. He should bow down and convene the New People’s Front. This is simply democracy,” the reaction of left-wing party leader Jean-Luc Melanchon is quoted.
The article summarises that the French president is trying to dodge a political disaster in the form of the dissolution of the National Assembly and the rise to power of the left, and that even all the perfume on display in the boutiques on Paris’ rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré will not help to hide the “stench” of Macron’s failure.
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