There are less than 480 days until the next presidential election.
But first, Emmanuel Macron must pass a series of perilous hurdles: overcome the social, health and economic crisis;
manage the consequences of Brexit, in particular the issue of migratory flows in Calais;
limit the breakage to departmental and regional June ... And do not stumble in parliament where delicate texts will mark the next twelve months.
A brief overview of the projects to come.
Sensitive texts
Separatism
.
The bill arrives at the end of January in committee at the National Assembly.
Symbol of the security turn of the president, it comes to close a sequence started in the district of Bourtzwiller, in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), last February.
The government will have to face the opposition's counter-proposals, but also the amendments emanating from its own majority, such as the ban on the veil for girls, advocated by two LREM deputies, despite the opposition of the executive.
"There is an initial philosophy to be safeguarded, but the most important thing will be that we be well understood by public opinion," slips a minister.
The return of article 24.
The bill on comprehensive security goes through the Luxembourg Palace.
Senators will be happy to rewrite the controversial article on the dissemination of images of the police.
The upper house, dominated by the right, will want to show the government that it is possible to reconcile protection of the police and respect for the freedom to inform.
Relations between the Senate and the executive are not about to heat up.
The battle for ecology
The proposed law against animal abuse
.
This text which tightens in particular the sanctions in the event of attack on the well-being of dogs, cats and other pets is carried by the presidents of the three groups of the majority.
It also restricts the use of wild animals in circuses and ultimately bans dolphinarium shows.
It is planned for the beginning of the year.
A priori, the subject is consensual.
The aim is to include the sentence "the Republic guarantees the preservation of biodiversity, the environment and the fight against climate change" in article 1 of the Constitution, via a
referendum
.
For this to happen, the Assembly and the Senate must agree, word for word, on the same constitutional bill.
Not won, as partisan games can weigh.
Debates are expected to start from March 8.
Then, the government will have to prevent the referendum from turning into a consultation for or against Macron.
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Citizen's Climate Convention.
Has the Parliament taken up "without filter" the proposals of the 150 participants in the Citizen's Climate Convention?
Does power go far enough?
These will be the debates that will animate parliamentarians at the end of March, when they will examine the text of the law resulting from the first experience of direct democracy in France.
Environmental associations have already denounced a step back from the promises.
The pending projects
Pension reform
.
Some are pushing for this emblematic issue to be put back on the top of the pile, such as the Minister of the Economy Bruno le Maire.
Others consider it urgent to wait.
Emmanuel Macron has not yet decided.
Addiction
.
The "great age" law was supposed to form the great social work of the five-year term.
For now, it is difficult to know if it will be confirmed.
In the meantime, reports are piling up in vain on the table of Minister Brigitte Bourguignon.
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The proportional
.
The government has until next June to modify the legislative ballot and make it more representative.
He is considering the introduction of an integral proportional by departments.
Unemployment insurance
.
Suspended during the health crisis, the reform, much criticized by the unions, provided for new methods of calculating rights.
Once the epidemic is under control, will the government apply the provisions that were to come into force before Covid-19?
The boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, said a few days ago that it was necessary to "start from a blank sheet".