He promised a “year of determination” for 2024. During the traditional televised New Year’s Eve address, Emmanuel Macron repeated that he wanted to continue to “act”. Manhandled since the start of this second five-year term, the President of the Republic therefore intends to bounce back in the coming months, even if he has remained rather evasive on the means to achieve this.
What resolutions would allow it to reach this announced “new milestone”? Reshuffle, Olympic Games, European elections… In the immediate future, optimistic or impossible… 20 minutes imagined the objectives that the president could have set for himself to revive himself.
The immediate resolution: land Elisabeth Borne
After twelve eventful months, Elisabeth Borne decided to start her year with a short canoe tour in the Guyanese jungle, with the armed forces. A trip far from France when its fate could be sealed. Because the Prime Minister seems an ideal fuse to relaunch the presidential dynamic. Is this option at the top of the president’s list of resolutions? The idea of a reshuffle, discussed for several months, has been gaining momentum in recent days. And the cancellation – without any official reason – of the Council of Ministers this Wednesday has once again restarted the speculation machine.
The unexpected resolution: surprising the French
After the Great Debate, the National Refoundation Council and the failure of the “Saint-Denis meetings”, Emmanuel Macron is preparing a new initiative to come out of his presidential hat. The Head of State thus promised “a meeting with the Nation” for the start of the year. “We must restore hope, a taste for the future,” he told the World early Decembersimply evoking the need to “remind France of itself” and “what it is”, “what constitutes us” as a people.
Should we see this as the announcement of a referendum or a new political UFO? During his greetings on Sunday, he confirmed that an announcement would be made “in the coming weeks”, without providing further details.
The optimistic resolution: finding a majority
“We won’t be able to go like this until the end of the five-year term…” sighed a Macronist parliamentarian at the end of the year. After the blockages on pension reform and the divisions on the immigration text, the presidential camp is approaching the year 2024 with the handbrake. We therefore have no doubt that Emmanuel Macron would appreciate finding (finally) a majority in the National Assembly to avoid the chaotic situation at the start of his mandate. Especially since dangerous texts are looming, such as that on the end of life. To get out of the rut, two possibilities are available to the head of state: an alliance with the right (which does not want it) or a dissolution (very risky).
The “mission impossible” resolution: winning the European vote
“We must remember how strategic this election is. The issue is clear: are we for or against Europe? », summarized Sylvain Maillard, the boss of the Renaissance deputies, last October. The presidential camp has already demonstrated its ambitions to win the European elections next June. But the task promises to be difficult because it is the RN which has been leading the race in the polls for months. The lead of the list led by Jordan Bardella is now 8 points over that of the presidential camp, according to certain surveys. Emmanuel Macron will first have to find a solid head of the list to lead the Macronist troops and reverse the predictions.
Personal resolution: not to be whistled at the 2024 Olympics
The image made the rounds on social networks and the media. Last September, Emmanuel Macron was heavily booed at the Stade de France during his opening speech to the Rugby World Cup. The head of state had already been heckled during the Top 14 final and that of the French Football Cup that same year.
With the Paris Olympic Games looming next summer, there is no doubt that whistles on mondiovision would mark the opening of this “popular festival” that he is calling for.