Emmanuel Macron’s five years of vows marked by crises

2020, the peak of a five-year crisis. At least, Emmanuel Macron wanted to believe it, after nine months of Covid-19. On this December 31, 2020, during his wishes, the Head of State lets glimpse the end of the tunnel: “Hope is there. Hope, life and hope grows every day”, announces the president Corner of the fire. Emmanuel Macron also pays a discreet tribute to Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who died a few weeks earlier, and is planning himself. “The first months of the year will be difficult. And at least until spring, the epidemic will still weigh heavily on the life of our country. Let’s look at our future. Let’s prepare from today this spring 2021 which will be the beginning of a new French morning, of a European renaissance! “

Corn 2021 did not go as hoped and theNeither did the other years of the five-year term. Greetings speeches that sometimes look like pious wishes follow one another. At the end of 2017, Emmanuel Macron, then newly elected, is solemn and wants to demonstrate that he lives in the office. He then makes the promise of a method.

“Always, I will listen. I will explain our situation. I will respect and always in the end, I will.”

Emmanuel Macron

during his wishes for the year 2018

Respect, brotherhood and national cohesion, insists Emmanuel Macron, but the small sentences mark. Like when the president tells a young man that if he “Cross the street”, he can find him a job, during the Heritage Days in 2018.

2018 will be the year of the “yellow vests”. Tried by the crisis, on December 10, Emmanuel Macron announces the great debate and the rise in low wages. But on the 31st, the tone is very different. Here he is getting back in the saddle, the words are hard, even if it means pronouncing controversial words. “That some take as a pretext to speak on behalf of the people – but which one? from where ? How? ‘Or’ What ? – and being in fact only the megaphone of a hateful crowd, attack the elected officials, the police, journalists, Jews, foreigners, homosexuals, it is simply the negation from France”, condemns the head of state.

The “yellow vests” appeased, it is the unions that take to the streets. On December 31, 2019, the pension reform agitated public opinion. “It is a project of justice and social progress”, affirms Emmanuel Macron, in what will be the longest wishes of the five-year Macron so far, with 18 minutes of speech. “The pension reform, to which I made a commitment to you and which is carried by the government, will be completed.” A voeu not answered. Emmanuel Macron ends up backing down by invoking the pandemic.

This December 31, 2021, four months before the presidential election and in the midst of a health crisis, his wishes for 2022 will necessarily look a bit like the others. The five-year term ends, the health crisis is still there.