Will Emmanuel Macron take advantage of the commemorations of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Bormes-les-Mimosas to make his political pre-entry? The Head of State comes out of his summer retreat at Fort de Brégançon this Thursday to participate in these ceremonies in the Var.
Marking the liberation of the city on August 17, 1944, they have become a must for presidential summers, preceding the resumption of the Council of Ministers by a few days.
Holidays marked by the crisis in Niger
Last year, six months after Russia’s attempted invasion of Ukraine, the President seized this ceremonial opportunity to denounce Vladimir Putin’s “brutal attack” and asked the French “to agree to pay the price of freedom. Namely the economic consequences of the war, with their cohort of energy and commodity price hikes that fueled inflation.
The Elysée also insists on the “studious” nature of the holidays of the Head of State. During these almost three weeks of leave, he thus multiplied contacts on the crisis in Niger, where a coup d’etat calls into question the French military presence in a country which has become the pivot of the anti-jihadist fight in the Sahel. According to the Elysée, he spoke on several occasions with his African counterparts and with President Mohamed Bazoum, overthrown by soldiers on July 26.
Emmanuel Macron will speak this Thursday at 7 p.m. in Bormes-les-Mimosas. “The President of the Republic will underline how much the liberators of 1944 formed a French youth in love with freedom and collective surpassing, against all fatality”, indicated the Elysée.
Next week, the Head of State will be back in Paris and will meet his government on August 23 at the Elysée Palace. Without a miracle solution to circumvent his lack of an absolute majority in the National Assembly, he promised for the end of the month “a major political initiative”. The Elysée pointed out that this initiative would focus on themes such as ecology, public services, work, order, progress, immigration.