Macron opens his wishes for 2025 with a best-of images of the year, a way to improve his balance sheet

POLITICS – In best-of mode. For his traditional New Year’s Eve televised address, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron chose to innovate by opening his wishes for the year 2025 with a series of images of the year 2024. Way to avoid open this moment by evoking the difficult political year that has just passed.

« Together, this year, we proved that impossible was not French “, he declared at the opening, on a video montage of the Eiffel Tower illuminated for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, of the inclusion in the Constitution of the guarantee of the right of women to voluntarily terminate their pregnancy, of the trial of rapes of Mazan and his main victim Gisèle Pelicot, the 80th anniversary of the Landing, or even the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.

A voice-over introduction also declared on the anthem of the Paris 2024 Games, composed by Victor Le Masne for this international sporting event. An initial varnish also punctuated with references to progress in ecology and industry. And “memories” for those who, at different times, defended France.

He also mentioned the “ progress for gender equality », which had the gift of annoying certain feminist activists and political figures. Like Sandrine Rousseau, who deplored on X the highlighting of abortion and Gisèle Pelicot after “ having said that Depardieu did honor to France ». « Indecent » simply commented the MP from Paris.

Smoke screen

« This summer we organized the Olympic and Paralympic Games which immediately entered history, entered our memories (…) which made a united country vibrate, from Saint-Denis to Tahiti », continued the Head of State on images of the fervor of the Paris Games. They “will remain an unforgettable moment in the life of the Nation. »

Then Emmanuel Macron mentioned Notre-Dame, a big stage at the end of the year. “We have returned Notre-Dame to worship and reopened to the public, five years after the fire of 2019”he affirmed, before seeing in this reconstruction in record time “the symbol of French will”.

An initial statement, which tried as best it could to bring to the forefront the French successes of the year 2024. Before turning towards 2025, to better forget the serious political crisis experienced by Emmanuel Macron and his governments during the last 365 days.

The tenant of the Élysée, however, allowed himself to occasionally raise angry subjects. Like when he uttered his first real my fault for the consequences of the dissolution of the National Assembly during the summer. A major episode in the perilous year of the French head of state. After an agricultural crisis at the start of the year, nightmarish European elections for his camp and legislative elections which reshuffled the cards on the French political scene and created immobility in the Assembly. Without forgetting the successive governments of Emmanuel Macron, four in number in 2024: Borne, Attal, Barnier and now Bayrou.

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