The Head of State made this “oath” when he speaks, in the village hall of the Elysée, after being reinvested.
Le Monde
Five more years for Emmanuel Macron at the head of the State. In front of more than 450 guests gathered in the village hall of the Elysée Palace to attend his inauguration ceremony, Saturday, May 7, the President of the Republic sketched the spirit in which he intended to govern until 2027. He will be “a new president” for “a new mandate,” he said during a ten-minute speech.
“At a time when the French tell me again the highest load, the awareness of the gravity of times accompanies me. From the return of war to Europe to the pandemic, passing through the ecological urgency ( …), Rarely our world and our country had not been faced with such a conjunction of challenges, “he said. Returning to his victory with 58.5 % of the votes against Marine Le Pen, he estimated that the French had made “the choice of a clear project” facing “the sirens of ideologies which we thought we had left the banks” in the XX
é> century and “easy demagogies”.
The hesitation of Laurent Fabius
“The time that opens will be that of an action resolved for France and for Europe,” he promised. “Act first to avoid any escalation [to the] following [from] the Russian aggression in Ukraine, to help democracy and courage to prevail, build a new European peace and new autonomy on our continent.” He Also committed to “act for a society of full employment”, against “inequalities, by re-eating [the] school and [the health system”, against “daily insecurity, of terrorism that is still prowling “.
After having formalized his inauguration, the president of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius, called him to take up “the great challenges” of this new five -year term, which follows five years “struck by an accumulation of crises and upheavals “, Like those of the Covid-19 pandemic, global warming or war in Ukraine. “In these troubled times, let’s be the servants of the law and the slaves of duty,” he added, citing Victor Hugo. A few minutes earlier, at the start of his speech, M.Fabius stopped for a few seconds, hesitating on the figures: “You collected 18,678,639 votes, that is to say the absolute majority of the votes cast.” In reality, Mr. Macron gathered 18,768,639 votes .
Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande among the guests
Among the guests were the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, all smiles, his predecessors Edouard Philippe, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Manuel Valls, the ministers, many elected officials, those responsible for the constituted bodies, academies, religions … as that former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande.
They rubbed shoulders, under the ors of the palace, the family of the president, including his wife, Brigitte, caregivers, the mayors of certain municipalities where the great debate had taken place, in 2019, during the crisis of “vests yellow “, association managers, athletes, such as the Olympic boxing champion BIXIM ASLOUM, students of a class of 6 e of the Oise labeled Jo 2024.” I am happy that You are there for this republican moment. Now, it is you who will prepare for the rest, “said Mr. Macron.
He also welcomed the parents of Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded in October 2020, the widow of the first dead doctor of COVID-19 and the mayor of Trèbes, commune where three people had been killed in March 2018, including the Lieutenant-Colonel de gendarmerie Arnaud Beltrame. At the end of the ceremony, Mr. Macron went out in the Elysée park to review the troops, to the sound of the Marseillaise and the land and sea of the Lann-Bihoué bagad, already played during the five-year term To pay tribute to soldiers killed in operation in the Sahel.
As tradition dictates, twenty -one cannon strokes were taken from the Hôtel des Invalides. This inauguration did not mark the start of the new five -year term: it will be officially necessary to wait for the end of the first, which will end on Friday May 13.