Last year, it was a president who was a quasi-candidate for his succession who expressed his wishes for France and the French.
This Saturday evening, it was a president at the start of his second term who spoke, without yet being able to really defend the results of his action since he was re-elected on the evening of May 1.
For the traditional end-of-year speech, which he was making for the sixth time, Emmanuel Macron had in mind the war in Europe, inflation which complicates the daily life of the French, and the Covid which is experiencing a frightening rebound in China.
Contrary to dark ideas, the President of the Republic wanted to send a “message of unity and confidence for the year to come”, had indicated the Elysée.
To begin his speech, Emmanuel Macron explained "wish us to live 2023 in a united and united country" in the face of "the spirit of division".
He thus recalled that a year ago, when he delivered a speech expressing his wishes "for the end of a planetary epidemic", no one could have foreseen the war in Ukraine and its consequences, referring to the "tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dead and millions of refugees”.
He thus recalled the inflation that affects the French and the climate crisis.
On this point, he said that France must "win" the "battle" of ecological transition.
On January 10, the government must unveil the pension reform project, the flagship of Macron's program during his re-election in the spring.
The meeting has already been postponed.
Emmanuel Macron alluded to this this evening, explaining that "2023 will be the year of pension reform".