During his inauguration ceremony, the Head of State promised in a short speech of “bequeathing a more livable planet” and “a stronger France”.
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The sweet music of the Chamber Orchestra of the Republican Guard accompanies the arrival of the guests, as in the King’s Court. There are many, many regulars who do not raise their heads on the gilding of the ceiling of the village hall of the Elysée, and the new ones, which draw their phone to immortalize the moment. The inauguration ceremony of a President of the Republic is worth as much for the speeches pronounced there as for its areopical, symbolic of the nature of a power.
In 2017, a host of strangers had rushed to the palace in the wake of Emmanuel Macron, elected on a promise to renew political life. Five years later, the faces of the “reinvesting” of the Head of State on Saturday May 7, most of them are familiar.
The former Presidents of the Republic, François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, stand side by side, in the front row; They pretend not to see each other, while the crowd of the 450 guests observes them from the corner of the eye.
The former Prime Ministers Manuel Valls, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Edouard Philippe, rub shoulders with elected officials in a mess, whether they are executives of the majority (François Bayrou, Christophe Castaner, François Patriat, Patrick Mignola), local barons rallied to Macronie (Christian Estrosi, Hubert Falco, Catherine Vautrin, Caroline Cayeux, Christophe Béchu), or figures of past five years, who come to smell the air of the new world (Marisol Touraine, Pierre Charon, Eric Woerth, Frédéric de Saint-Sernin, Elisabeth Guigou).
Immutable rite
The “Mormons”, this brigata of thirties who accompanied the ascent of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, enter group, as five years ago. Some members of the band-ex-Porte-Parole Sibeth Ndiaye, the former feather Sylvain Fort, and the former political advisor Jean-Marie Girier-have disappeared from photography, where only Stanislas Guerini, general delegate are now included The Republic En Marche, Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture, Cédric O, Secretary of State for Digital, Adrien Taquet, in charge of the family, or the communicator Ismaël Emelien.
Re-elected two weeks ago, Emmanuel Macron does not seem in a hurry to enter his place in his new mandate. The time is still to write the gesture of the previous one, with the presence “of people who counted in the history of the first five -year term”, according to the formula of the Elysée. The mayors of cities who welcomed the great national debate, the day after the movement of “yellow vests”, were invited. A midwife from the Timone Hospital in Marseille that the Head of State met during the COVVI-19 crisis, is present, as is the president of the scientific council, Jean-François Delfraissy. The tenant of the Elysée will stop for an emotional exchange with the parents of Samuel Paty, murdered in 2020 by a terrorist in front of his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines).
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