It is on the lands of his Defense Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, that the President of the Republic François Hollande will present his traditional wishes to the armies. The Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan officers’ school will host this ceremony.
François Hollande will present his wishes to the French on December 31. borrowed wishes of “ seriousness and solemnity » specifies his entourage, at the end of a year 2015 marked by the attacks of Charlie hebdo and the Bataclan.
These relatives refer a determined president « to do everything to protect the French “. The president will speak on one of the flagship proposals of the fight against terrorism, which divides the left, the extension of the forfeiture of nationality to French dual nationals convicted of terrorism.
A tour for wishes 2016
As tradition dictates, the President of the Republic will speak at 8:00 p.m. sharp and for seven to eight minutes. A radio and television address which will be recorded in the two hours preceding its broadcast at the Palais de l’Elysée, probably under the golds of the Salon Napoléon III.
This New Year’s Eve exercise will open the no less traditional litany of January presidential wishes to all that France has of parliamentarians or constituted bodies.
With however a major innovation, dictated there also by the attacks. On January 7, one year to the day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, François Hollande will present his wishes to the security forces engaged in Operation Sentinel launched in early 2015 to protect the many sensitive points of the national territory.
Wishes to the armies in Brittany
From the 4th, he will present his wishes to the government, in the wake of the first council of ministers of the year which is traditionally held on Monday. And the next day, it will be the turn of the religious authorities and the Constitutional Council.
On the 8th, François Hollande will go to Jarnac (Charente) to pray at the grave of François Mitterrand, 20 years to the day after his death.
He will then continue his marathon of wishes with the constituted bodies and the assemblies, the 13th, the armies, the 14th in Coëtquidan (Morbihan), the territories, in his stronghold of Corrèze on the 16th, the actors of the company and the employment, on the 18th, and the diplomatic corps, on the 21st.
