MACRON SPEECH. The Head of State is the guest, this Wednesday, October 26, of the Event, on France 2. Emmanuel Macron will address the axes of his internal policy.
Emmanuel Macron is again facing Caroline Roux this Wednesday, October 26, on the set of the program “L’Evénement” on France 2. The Head of State has agreed to confront the journalist’s questions live, at from 8:30 p.m. for one hour. On the program: questions of domestic politics, two weeks after a program in the same form devoted to international questions and more specifically to the war waged in Ukraine by the Russian army. This Wednesday, October 26, the Head of State will have to take stock of the areas he intends to develop for the country’s next reforms.
Pedagogical speech, explanatory exercise… Will Emmanuel Macron opt for a professorial tone to explain the way in which he intends to reform pension schemes and the unemployment benefit system? These two subjects will be two points developed during the interview, which promises to be very dense. While the government has decided to resort to the very unpopular article of 49.3 to have the 2023 budget and the social security finance plan adopted, Emmanuel Macron will have to defend the line of the executive. Concrete announcements could punctuate his speech. But he should also be questioned on how he intends to concretely engage the country more in the energy transition and the measures that could structure his five-year term on this issue.
Two subjects are also essential in the common thread of the interview with Emmanuel Macron on France 2 this Wednesday, October 26. First the death of young Lola, which occurred in Paris on October 14: the investigation pointed to the fact that the main suspect was under an obligation to leave French territory, which outraged part of the right and the French extreme right. A statement from the President of the Republic on the subject is awaited. In addition, Emmanuel Macron should say a word about his meeting with the new Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, while the left accuses him of having met without public reservations the head of the far-right government.
A previous interview on France 2 on international issues
On Wednesday October 12, the President of the Republic had already answered Caroline Roux’s questions in the first issue of the political program of France 2, The Event. The Head of State had made the rounds of international issues by looking at length on the war in Ukraine. He notably accused his Russian counterpart of having “triggered a war unilaterally against a neighboring country [et] endangered an entire people and the continent”. But the man who positioned himself during the first months of the war as a mediator between kyiv and Moscow could not content himself with blaming one of the belligerents and once again called on his Vladimir Putin to “stop this war, respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine and return to the discussion table.” It should be noted that at this table both Russia and Ukraine refuse to sit down. Emmanuel Macron could not expand on the conflict in Ukraine without being questioned on the thorny question of the nuclear threat. A subject on which he preferred to kick in touch while adding a pinch of deterrence in his speech.
Regarding the revolution that seems to be preparing in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, Emmanuel Macron assured that “France condemns the repressions carried out by the Iranian regime and we stand alongside these women” who are campaigning for their right and their freedom. However, he explains that France cannot and must not intervene in Iranian events: “Today, what is happening in Iran, we must defend it, say it, support it. We cannot replace it”.
As for Armenia where clashes with Azerbaijan for the Nagorno-Karabakh region are still raging, the Head of State promised that “we will not let go of the Armenians and Armenians” recalling the participation of France in the negotiations between the two belligerents in Prague. He also pointed to Russia’s role in this conflict alongside Azerbaijan and denounced a “destabilizing maneuver which, in the Caucasus, seeks to create disorder to weaken and divide us all”.