Emmanuel Macron is the guest of the 20 Hours of TF1, this Monday, May 15. The head of state should answer questions about Ukraine but also discuss national issues such as pensions or taxation. If no announcement is planned, the speech of the Head of State will be scrutinized.
The essential
- Emmanuel Macron is the guest of the 20 Hours newspaper of TF1, this Monday, May 15. He will answer Gilles Bouleau’s questions live.
- Emmanuel Macron’s interview should partly focus on the war in Ukraine. Yesterday evening, the head of state spoke with Volodymyr Zelensky and decided to supply new weapons to Ukraine.
- The President of the Republic should also be called upon to speak on the still burning subject of pension reform. If Emmanuel Macron refuses to reconsider the promulgation of the law, the opposition continues to want to repeal the text.
- During the interview, Emmanuel Macron should also mention other subjects such as taxation with a promise of lower taxes or ecology with possible explanations for his desire to take a “European regulatory break”.
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15:22 – Pensions, mentioned or evaded by Emmanuel Macron?
If there is a subject that is still in the minds of the French, it is the pension reform. The bill may have been enacted, but it is still not accepted. The Head of State should therefore, unsurprisingly, be questioned on this point and he could answer the questions without evading the subject, because despite his desire to turn the page he cannot avoid annoying subjects indefinitely. Emmanuel Macron’s position on pension reform is however well known: he considers it necessary and denounces a “denial of reality” on the part of the opposition. The Head of State’s answers to questions on pensions should therefore not mention any backtracking on the promulgation of the law.
15:01 – New statements from Macron on the war in Ukraine?
The day after the interview between Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky at the Elysée Palace, the war in Ukraine stands out among the subjects on the program of the interview with the Head of State. The two politicians exchanged for three hours last night and several decisions were taken and revealed by the Elysée: France thus agrees to send tanks, but still refuses to provide fighter planes to Kiev. The President of the Republic could be questioned on this position held for several months, but also on the role he intends to play in this war, he who at the beginning of the conflict took on the role of mediator. If details are possible, Emmanuel Macron should not make any new announcements on France’s involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
14:45 – What topics will be discussed during the interview?
The list of possible subjects that can be raised during Emmanuel Macron’s interview on TF1 is quite long, but the Head of State should only have a few minutes to speak, so sorting out the questions is necessary. The war in Ukraine and France’s role in this conflict will certainly be discussed, but the Head of State, who has made numerous declarations and trips in recent days, could also be called upon to speak, even briefly, on d other subjects, pell-mell: taxes, reindustrialisation, ecology and of course the delicate subject of pensions.
14:33 – Macron’s interview: new stage of his return to the field
If Emmanuel Macron was discreet during the crisis of the pension reform, the head of state has returned to the front of the stage for a few weeks with several trips organized in France since mid-April. This Monday’s interview on TF1 seems to be a new step in the strategy of the Head of State to become an actor in his policy by defending his projects to the French himself. To the point of being too present?
2:20 p.m. – Macron speaks on TF1 this Monday
Almost two months after his last interview, Emmanuel Macron lends himself again to the exercise this Monday, May 15. But this time it is on the set of the 20 Hours of TF1 that the Head of State goes to answer questions from Gilles Bouleau. The interview could last about twenty minutes and will be held live.
TF1, which welcomes Emmanuel Macron on its set this Monday evening, does not hide the fact that the war in Ukraine will take a significant place in the interview with the President of the Republic: “Military means, negotiations to reach peace with Russia, role of the France” should be mentioned. The subject seems to be essential the day after a three-hour interview between the head of state and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. Sunday evening, the Elysée has already lifted the veil on the decisions and commitments made by Emmanuel Macron concerning Ukraine: France has promised to equip “several battalions with dozens of armored vehicles and light tanks”, but refuses yet to provide the long-awaited fighter planes by Kiev. Clarifications on this decision and on the role that France wants to play in the resolution of the conflict could be requested.
Domestic politics should also find a place during the interview with Emmanuel Macron and the Head of State took the lead before his speech on TF1. In a river interview granted to the newspaper Opinion, Sunday, May 14, he said he wanted to do more to help the middle classes by lowering taxes. “The taxation of middle-class income is too high and is accelerating too quickly. It crushes purchasing power gains between 1,500 and 2,500 euros. […] I’m talking about those who are too rich to be helped and not rich enough to live well. […] We must allow the middle classes to live better with their salary”, declared the President. This tax promise has been mentioned several times by the Head of State since his first mandate, this time would it be a way of reconquering the class? average after the painful page of pensions?
If the Elysée displays this objective to help the French, one of the priorities is above all to support the French economy with, among other things, a policy of reindustrialization. This Monday, before the interview, Emmanuel Macron is present in Versailles for the opening of Choose France, an investor summit during which 13 billion euros of investment must be announced according to the executive.
If Emmanuel Macron tries to make people forget the pension reform, he could not escape the journalist’s questions on this subject during the 20 Hours of TF1. Although promulgated, the reform has still not been accepted and a bill from the Liot group to repeal the pension reform must be examined by Parliament on June 8. A political decision which is not to the taste of the Head of State and considered symptomatic of the “denial of reality” of opponents of the pension reform according to his remarks in Opinion. “Some have claimed that the reform could be avoided, without saying what they were proposing instead,” the President told the newspaper.