80 years since the liberation of Bormes-les-Mimosas: “Let's not give in to division”, urges President Emmanuel Macron

Recalling, in his speech, those French people who helped with the landing in Provence 80 years ago, “ready to give their blood and their dreams, their sap and their dreams, for this universal idea of ​​our nation, for its hope for humanity and progress”, the President of the Republic considered that “this heritage obliges us”.

He calls on the French to live up to those who liberated them

Emmanuel Macron, calling on the French to live up to those who liberated them, concluded his speech by evoking "a great country, a great people, that we will pass on stronger and more united".

In his speech in Bormes-les Mimosas, the Head of State recalled what France owed, upon its liberation, "to the children of Odessa (Editor's note: in Ukraine) and of Europe, the Maghreb and Africa, the Antilles and the Pacific".

Two days earlier, at the international necropolis of Boulouris, in Saint-Raphaël, he had already emphasized it, in his tribute for the 80th anniversary of the landing in Provence, to the "motley" army who had arrived on the beaches of Var.

Emmanuel Macron is faced, following his decision to dissolve, with an Assembly without any possible combination of absolute majority, with a presidential camp in decline, a left that claims Matignon and an extreme right in progress.

The left, far from the absolute majority, but strong in the greatest number of seats, still claims to form the government, with Lucie Castets at its head, a senior civil servant unknown to the general public. She will also be at the Elysée on Friday with the parties making up the New Popular Front.