He says he speaks with “lucidity” and “humility”. In a ten-minute speech broadcast on television this Sunday, December 31, Emmanuel Macron recognized that the dissolution of the National Assembly in June had brought “more divisions” to the Assembly than solutions for the French. In his wishes for 2025, a fortnight after the appointment of François Bayrou to Matignon, the President of the Republic admitted that “political instability” was one of the main difficulties encountered by France in 2024, as well as. THE climate disasters and the agricultural crisis.
Emmanuel Macron began his speech at 8 p.m. with a video montage of highlights of the past year: the inclusion in the Constitution of the right to abortion, the awareness surrounding violence against women on the occasion of the trial of the Mazan rapes, the ceremonies on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of France, the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris – “which made a united country vibrate”, according to Emmanuel Macron – and the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Speaking on the political crisis that France is going through, Emmanuel Macron declared that the current Assembly, although divided, represented the country “in all its diversity” and hoped that a “compromise path to act” would be found. He hoped that 2025 would be “the year of collective recovery” and “stability”. In this sense, he called on parliamentarians to adopt a budget.
The president also returned to the various international crises, from the war in Ukraine to the conflict in the Middle East, which “directly concern” France and “threaten” its security, according to Emmanuel Macron. He considered that Europe could no longer “delegate its security and defense to other powers” and called for the “awakening” of the EU on several levels (defense, science, industry, etc.).
Declaring that he wanted to act “with 2050 in his sights”, Emmanuel Macron affirmed that he would ask the French to “decide” on certain “determining issues”, without specifying whether he intended to submit certain proposals to referendums or citizen consultations.