Emmanuel Macron présente ce mardi 31 décembre 2024, à 20 h, ses vœux aux Français pour 2025 dans la traditionnelle allocution télévisée de la Saint-Sylvestre, dans l’espoir de tourner la page d’une année marquée par sa dissolution ratée et la perte d’une grande part de son influence.
“These are his eighth wishes” since his arrival at the Elysée in 2017, but “the first in another role”, say those around him.
“He was a president who governed,” giving impetus to public policies that figured heavily in this New Year’s speech, says an adviser. This year, he will have “the advantage of playing a guarantor role. ”
Despite the arrival on December 13 of his historical best friend François Bayrou in Matignon, the latest shock in a political year scandalized by crises, Emmanuel Macron intends to adopt a withdrawn stance of “president who presides”, letting the government govern. As has been the case since his side lost the summer’s early legislative elections following the dissolution of the National Assembly.
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“The shadow of dissolution will weigh on those desires,” because the president “is cornered” and will have to try to “regain momentum” for his second five-year term, Philippe Moreau Chevrolet, a professor of science communication, told Philippe Moreau Chevrolet. AFP Po.
S’il a déjà esquissé un timide mea culpa début décembre, il va peut-être tenter d’ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives, pour éloigner la petite musique de certains de ses opposants qui jugent inéluctable sa démission avant la fin de son mandat, en 2027.
C’est la première fois que le chef de l’État s’exprime depuis qu’il a nommé le centriste comme premier ministre, puis un gouvernement de poids lourds, avec le retour de Manuel Valls, Élisabeth Borne ou Gérald Darmanin.
A team that is based on the same fragile and minority team in Parliament between Macron and the Republicans that had supported the previous right-wing prime minister Michel Barnier, who was nevertheless censured three months after his appointment. therefore, exposed to the same threat of being overthrown through deputies from the left and the extreme right.
A year ago, greetings, the President of the Republic announced a year of “French pride”, with the 80th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy, the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris and the reopening of Notre Dame five years after the fire. Many successful bets.
But he spoke of a year of “rearmament of the Nation” to face the demanding situations that lie ahead.
And there, 2024 fulfilled its promises.
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Les crises et les déconvenues se sont enchaînées : fronde paysanne inédite qui lui a valu un passage houleux au Salon de l’agriculture, émeutes en Nouvelle-Calédonie sur fond d’impasse institutionnelle que sa visite express dans l’archipel n’est pas parvenue à résoudre, coup d’arrêt à la réindustrialisation du pays et procès en mauvaise gestion des finances publiques. Et l’année se termine sur la désolation et la colère à Mayotte, dévastée par le cyclone Chido.
At the international level, the war continues in Ukraine and Gaza, although Emmanuel Macron has achieved some diplomatic successes, contributing to a ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and the Shiite Hezbollah movement, or meeting his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, with the president-elect of the United States. Donald Trump.
On the political level, the attempt to revive the young Gabriel Attal in Matignon in January did not bear fruit, and the Macronist camp suffered a serious defeat in the European elections in June, far from the National Rally.
Subsequently, Emmanuel Macron dissolved himself to everyone’s surprise, opening the most serious political crisis of the Fifth Republic. Without a majority in the Assembly, fractured into 3 blocks that do not get along, the country becomes ungovernable and enters 2025 without a voted budget despite significant deficits.
Upon returning from a few days of rest in Fort Brégançon, in the Mediterranean, the president will once again address these “geopolitical or internal political difficulties,” depending on his environment.
But he sticks to the “big issues,” without dictating answers as he has done in the past.
News France