[CHRONIQUE] 2025: what to wish for France and the French?

Never, undoubtedly, since the origin of the V^e Republic have the French been so far from the political and administrative world. They oscillate between resignation and exasperation and expect nothing from the State and its army of bureaucrats, nor from local authorities equally encysted in bureaucracy and normative mania. As for the political personnel themselves, they place no trust in them and only entrust them with the reins of power by default.
Last summer, voters had the chance to change the country's political software. They did not seize the opportunity. It is true that decades of misinformation and demonization cannot be erased in the blink of an eye. And in a rather singular way, the system's journalists, associated with discredited politicians, still seem to have some effectiveness in ideological bludgeoning.

Churchill believed that when one ignores History, one exposes oneself to knowing it again. However, such a state of mind, between despondency and revolt, has already been known in the chaotic history of our Republics. Almost the entire interwar period was bathed in this deleterious atmosphere, as was the end of the Fourth Republic. Same oscillation between exasperation and resignation, same rhetoric on the “fascist” peril, same lamentable ending. In 1958, de Gaulle was able to bury the party regime and the Republic, the fourth of its name, without civil war. But his so-called heirs have consistently worked to destroy the institutional structure, both in its letter and in its spirit.

The debate on the resignation of the President of the Republic which stirred up the editorial staff and the small political world had something surreal. Henri Guaino estimated that if we pushed the President to resign, it would be the end of the V^e Republic. This strictly Gaullist seems to have forgotten that General de Gaulle himself resigned, even though nothing constrained him to do so on a constitutional level. But the founder of our institutions considered that the spirit of them was more important than the letter. Can we imagine “great Charles” in cohabitation? The present political situation is only the consequence of the total forgetting of the spirit of the Constitution of our Republic since Mitterrand. Designed to ensure the greatness and independence of France as well as its institutional stability, it was systematically deconstructed.

In the disastrous situation in which we find ourselves on the political, financial, economic and cultural levels, the only way out that Macron and Bayrou found was to call into action those who had failed miserably. From Manuel Valls, gravedigger, with Hollande, of our nuclear industry to obtain the electoral support of the Greens, and responsible for a disastrous circular to which he attached his name, to Élisabeth Borne via the talkative and agitated Gérald Darmanin, to which political art seems reduced to oratory, is the litany of what the French can no longer tolerate.

So, what to wish our compatriots? To rediscover that when hope fades, Hope still remains. Péguy’s dear little sister. And recall the writings of De Gaulle: “ An old man, hard-pressed, detached from business, but never tired of watching in the shadows for the light of Hope. »

As the royalists said “long live the king anyway!” », Happy New Year anyway! Let's approach 2025 in Hope.