A mea culpa and new wishes on form for Emmanuel Macron. The President of the Republic addressed the French this Tuesday, December 31, before the end of the year 2024. For the first time under the Fifth Republic, the Head of State began his greetings with a video clip with a best-of of the great moments of the year.
Emmanuel Macron recognized that the dissolution of the Assembly sowed “divisions” and “instability”. He also called for “collective pulling together”. In 2025, the President of the Republic will call on the French to “decide” on certain “determining issues. “We will have choices to make for our economy, our democracy, our security, our children”, explained the head of the State.
“Each of you will have a role to play, each of you will be needed“, continued Emmanuel Macron. The latter could use one of the last cards he has in his hands, that of the referendum. The President of the Republic has not yet used this process. However, he has been talking about it for a long time.
To escape the plebiscite referendum, as Charles de Gaulle was able to do, Emmanuel Macron would like offer several choices to the Frenchin order to avoid voters saying no to him and to really answer the questions. The choices that the French would make would be based on structuring subjectssuch as nuclear power, immigration or pensions. The head of state's entourage remains unclear. Emmanuel Macron was not more precise. The main thing was to tell the French that he still has a little power.
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