Jean D’Ormesson beautifully wrote it, and Enis Sliti, 34 years old, departmental referent, reminds us: “There are days, months, interminable years where almost nothing happens. There are minutes and seconds that contain a whole world.”
In fact, what happened was at the very least unexpected, and behind a Jupiter-like president, the “macronie” that we knew nothing about a year ago is getting ..on the move, making itself visible, spreading out. On the international level, with a President who carries a European project, on the national level with a majority in the National Assembly, with three deputies out of 9, Alexandra Ardisson, Cédric Roussel, and Loic Dombreval.
The municipal level remains the most arduous because it will require dealing with well-established factions and ingrained situations.
But young (and not so young) activists and leaders are eager to do it.
“If optimism prevailed [at the national level], it is only a step, because much remains to be done. Nothing is ever achieved, political struggle by its essence never ends,” says Enis Sliti with clarity.
After having pushed back populism and isolationism, it will now be necessary to realize the project for which the French made their choice by voting for a young man full of talent and ambition but a “new entry” in politics (incidentally, the only election he participated in is the presidential one…from simple citizen to President of the Republic, that says a lot!).
This project, as Enis Sliti again reminds us, is broken down into three axes:
i) defending progressivism, humanism, and optimism embodied by a new generation that has not given up in order to make France a great country of innovation and economic success.
ii) giving new impetus to our social model, a modernized social model in order to fulfill the promise of our republican motto of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
iii) expressing our will to relaunch the European project.
For the young leader from En Marche in the French Riviera, “everything seems to converge towards this hope”.
These wishes for 2018 are particularly addressed “to the consistency in our method, that of gathering. Gathering to transcend and give power to the policy we are leading, by creating citizen adhesion. And thus tirelessly explaining to convince, tirelessly listening to adjust”.
And -at the same time- progressing like good marchers.
