The decline in the birth rate in France was dizzying in 2023, with the number of births falling by 6.8% compared to the last measurement. Faced with this observation, Emmanuel Macron announced during a press conference at the Élysée on Tuesday that “a major plan to fight this scourge will be launched to enable precisely this demographic rearmament”. Guest of the TF1 morning show this Thursday, Sandrine Rousseau estimated that there was “no national issue in having children”.
“We saw this type of speech in the worst periods of our country, where women’s bellies were taken as public policy,” criticizes the environmentalist MP. The uterus belongs to women and they do what they want with it.”
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The EELV elected official also returned to a controversial tweet, published after the appointment of Gabriel Attal to the post of Prime Minister. “Gabriel Attal is Jewish and gay. Alright. No attack, directly or indirectly, directly or indirectly, on this. Never.”, she wrote then. If she claims to have wanted to “denounce anti-Semitic attacks” against the new tenant of Matignon and “defend” him, Sandrine Rousseau considered the wording of her message “clumsy”. “I will continue to defend him on this,” she added.
The environmentalist MP, who spent the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in the street alongside several left-wing elected officials to warn about the conditions of the homeless during the cold wave which hit the northern part of the France, attacked the announcements of ecological sobriety made by Emmanuel Macron. “We are in a period of inflation, where people no longer have what to eat, what to heat, what to house. This is the worst of ecological transformations and energy sobriety since (the citizens affected) are those who have no way of paying their electricity bill. It’s a shame to do that,” she said.
