Europe 1 with AFP 8:19 p.m., December 31, 2021, modified at 8:22 p.m., December 31, 2021
Emmanuel Macron addressed the French this evening for New Year's Eve, for the last time in his five-year term.
The wishes have been recorded.
The president announced "difficult weeks" but "real reasons to hope" with the anti-Covid vaccine.
Emmanuel Macron warned on Friday, during his vows for 2022, that "the coming weeks will be difficult" but that there were "real reasons for hope" thanks to the anti-Covid vaccine and that "2022 might be the year of exit from the epidemic ". "We are more than 53 million to be vaccinated" he affirmed, specifying that "vaccination is our strongest asset". The president appealed to the five million French people who are still unvaccinated. He also recalled that vaccination was not the only way to counter the disease, in particular by mentioning barrier gestures. "France despite the ordeals is stronger today than two years ago," Macron said.
Thanks to the vaccine, "we will thus be able to overcome this wave", he added, promising to "do everything to preserve the activity of the country" and "to avoid taking restrictions which weigh on our freedom".
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