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A five-year term marred by controversial remarks. Invited to comment on TF1 on several of his outings that occurred during his tenure as President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron multiplied this Wednesday evening the mea culpa.
If he says “regret” being “in a society of decontextualization”, he admitted having been able to “hurt” by the formulation of some of his remarks and recognized a certain clumsiness in the application of certain political measures.
• “Those who are nothing”: his greatest regret
In 2017, the president gave a speech to entrepreneurs at the inauguration of station F during which he distinguished “people who succeed and those who are nothing”.
“We can not say that”, recognized Emmanuel Macron in front of the journalists of TF1. “It’s terribly hurtful […] I think that in some of my words, I hurt people and I think we can move things without hurting people and that’s what I will not do again because, at the time I did it , I did not measure that I was hurting. I keep the same desire to shake things up, but I have acquired a lot more respect for everyone. That’s what I learned, “he insisted.
• He apologizes for his comments about “lazy” and “cynics”
Questioned on one of his trips where he invited a young man to “cross the street” to find a job but also on one of his speeches where he castigated the “lazy people, the cynics”, Emmanuel Macron said that he would “certainly not” repeat those words today.
“There are words that can hurt, and I think it’s never good, it’s even unacceptable because respect is part of political life,” said the head of state.
• On Saint-Martin, “I was naive”
He also returned in passing on a photo taken in Saint-Martin in 2018 after the passage of hurricane Irma, on which he appears alongside a shirtless young man making a middle finger.
Making the point of his taste for going “to contact, to the heart of problems”, he also recognized that it was necessary to “protect the function” of President of the Republic.
• He did “probably too little” for the hospital before the crisis
Asked about the hospital situation before the Covid-19 crisis which still hits health establishments, the Head of State refutes any inaction but admits having done “probably too little” for caregivers.
“What I am saying in 2018, and the intuition is rather correct, is that we must stop lowering prices, that we change the organization, that we regain ambition and that ‘we invest,’ said the president. “But I think I do not sufficiently measure the feeling of urgency before the crisis (health, editor’s note)”, he conceded
• “Mistakes were made” before the yellow vests
Emmanuel Macron recognized a share of responsibility in the social crisis of yellow vests which marked the end of 2018 in France.
“Nobody saw such a crisis happen. But I think there were mistakes that were made,” said the president. “The mechanics of increasing fuel are voted on in 2015. As it is voted, we think it is done. And we do not pay enough attention to the moment when it happens in people’s lives. We took decisions that have been misunderstood, “he added.
“I tried to do well every moment. Did I make mistakes? Yes, a lot. Did I repeat them? I tried not to repeat them,” he concluded. the outcome of this interview.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
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