This series is interested until Friday December 31 in the wishes of the Presidents of the Republic, but in very particular wishes, and which reason with those that will formulate Emmanuel Macron in a few days: the last wishes of a mandate.
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Astonishing, atypical start to the presidential vows that those of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing on December 31, 1980. A few months before the first round of the presidential election, the President of the Republic is in rather good shape. The polls for the month of December give him the winner of the second round, more or less largely but always the winner against François Mitterrand who established himself as the socialist candidate at the beginning of November.
We are surprised not to hear any direct allusion to the presidential election. It is as if this one was not going to take place except to listen carefully to what Giscard says. He tends the stakes for France in 1981 and in hollow we hear the risk that there would be for the French to let go of the prey, him, for the shadows, the socialists.
Let us not forget that the Socialists have never yet had power under the Fifth Republic and that the right depicts them as quasi-communists who nevertheless tried the experiment of a common program in the 1970s. The president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing warns against the risk that France would run in changing President of the Republic.
“It takes little to destroy the image of a nation: laxity, impatience, disunity. 1981 will be another difficult year.”
Valéry Giscard d’EstaingDecember 31, 1980
Giscard lyrically ends his vows and when we know that a few months later, he will end his final speech with a “Bye” lugubrious and now mythical, we can see that the year of happiness that he requested from Providence will not have really been granted to him.