Like every year, Emmanuel Macron went to Bormes-les-Mimosas, to deliver a speech on the occasion of the commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the landing in Provence. A pre-return for the President of the Republic, who will stay a few more days in Brégançon where he is staying during the summer break. This speech, after nearly three weeks of silence, was eagerly awaited, but the Head of State did not take the opportunity to really set the tone for the return to politics even if he sent a few messages to the youth.
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Trying to show the way to today’s youth by paying tribute to the French who risked their lives to liberate the country and by recalling the values for which they fought, this is the only political message that Emmanuel Macron has slipped into his ritual. speech of the month of August in Bormes-les-Mimosas: “ These young people had a love of country, a thirst for excellence. »
The Head of State did not explicitly mention the urban riots that marked France before the summer, but his intention was clear: to plead for the unity of the nation which passes, to hear him, by “ a certain idea of freedom “: ” Which only exists because it is always and first of all collective, the rights which ensue, which are only there because there were first of all duties, this is what we must nourish our younger generations. »
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Young people whose expectations the president mentioned: “ There is in our young people an appetite for freedom, an idealism which is sometimes sought and to which we must respond, because outside this common field disunity thrives, the division which paves the way for chaos and injustice. »
A way to learn from the crisis before a complicated return. Emmanuel Macron has announced his intention to take a major political initiative to overcome the handicap of his relative majority. Initiative of which he still has not given the content. The next appointment for the president is in a week with the first Council of Ministers.
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