Emmanuel Macron will ship the French a message of “unity” | EUROtoday

Published on : 12/31/2023 – 05:41Modified : 12/31/2023 – 3:16 p.m.

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One final speech earlier than the beginning of the brand new yr. The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron will ship a message of “unity” on Sunday December 31 in his conventional needs to the French, hoping to show the web page on a turbulent yr and start the relaunch of a struggling five-year time period.

Against the backdrop of a serious unknown: will the federal government reshuffle, which seems increasingly unavoidable, happen at first of the yr or later, and with which incumbent at Matignon?

The Head of State, after spending just a few days at Fort de Brégançon, the presidential residence on the Côte d’Azur, will unveil, in his speech which can start at 8 p.m., the “new course” envisaged for 2024, summarizes- we on the Élysée.

But with out going into particulars. He ought to the truth is reserve his bulletins for the following “meeting with the Nation” which he introduced for January, an train about which he stays very mysterious for the second.

A speech positioned beneath the signal of “unity”

After a yr 2023 wealthy in crises and controversies from pension reform to immigration reform, together with the city riots of the summer season or his latest controversial feedback on Gérard Depardieu, his speech can be positioned beneath the signal of “the unity,” notes an advisor.

How to reply to accusations of compromise with the far proper on immigration regulation? How can we unite a majority fractured like by no means earlier than after the vote on this textual content? The begin of the varsity yr guarantees to be perilous for the Head of State each politically and economically with persistent inflation.

Without forgetting the worldwide with the battle in Ukraine and the Middle East, the place his requires “a lasting ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas stay a lifeless letter.

During his speech, Emmanuel Macron ought to attempt to instill just a little extra optimism and consensus.

The yr forward guarantees to be stuffed with occasions: Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, 80^e anniversary of the Normandy landings, problem of the European elections, with a National Rally favourite within the polls.

2024 would be the yr of “confirmation of the relevance of our ideas”, declared Marine Le Pen on Sunday on X in her needs to the French, calling on her voters to mobilize in June behind occasion president Jordan Bardella, head of the checklist to Europeans.

“Never have our ideas been so validated by our adversaries,” she assured, Jordan Bardella affirming that the RN “has imposed itself […] as the favorite political party of the French”.

End of life, abortion and full employment

In his wishes, the president will also give “directions for major reforms to come”, notes the presidential advisor.

With a flagship text on the end of life, which will be presented to the Council of Ministers before the Europeans in June but discussed afterwards in the Assembly, according to a majority framework.

Another highly symbolic reform, the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution, hoped by the executive for March 5 via a Congress in Versailles. And, undoubtedly, texts intended to promote a return to full employment.

This “new course” can be “a continuation of what the Head of State has been doing for almost seven years to restore and reform France”, we insist on the Élysée.

Every allusion can be intently scrutinized as requires a reshuffle multiply within the presidential camp.

“Today, there is no agenda. It’s a new page to write,” commented the boss of Modem, François Bayrou, on France Inter. And to plead for “a renewal” within the JDD.

Opposed to a authorities settlement with the Republicans, this historic ally of Emmanuel Macron desires a decent group round fifteen ministers.

As for Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who’s flying to Guyana on Sunday for 2 days, she is “someone courageous”, argues the centrist chief. “But the question of the President of the Republic is that of the adequacy between the project and the people.”

Several ministers from the left wing, against the textual content on immigration, are in a fragile scenario: Clément Beaune (Transport), Rima Abdul Malak (Education), Patrice Vergriete (Housing) or Sylvie Retailleau (Higher Education).

With AFP