Published on January 1, 2025 at 2:08 p.m. / Modified on January 1, 2025 at 2:10 p.m.
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A referendum? Which referendum? During his message of greetings to the French on December 31, Emmanuel Macron did not say the word. But a little sentence, at the end of a speech where he outlined a self-criticism for his dissolution of the National Assembly, put the flea in the ear: “In 2025, I will ask you to decide on certain determining issues. » He didn’t say which ones.
This is not the first time that the French president has more or less explicitly mentioned the possibility of a referendum. In 2023, after consulting all political parties, he raised the possibility of using it for “so-called “societal” issues such as the end of life but also broader reforms affecting several intertwined aspects, as is the case of migration issues which relate to sovereign, economic, social or even diplomatic issues.
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