Senators, in article 18, the constitution says that the president may take the floor before parliament in deep congress in this purpose, and it is sometimes necessary to do so. D it is sometimes necessary to do so. We are living through such a time right now. On the 17th of may, i was given mandate and the message was amplified with a large parliamentarian majority. Thent to tell you about mandate entrusted to us and the institutions that i want to change and the Guiding Principles that i wish to follow in my actions. 1000 different ways let us to hear and to this place today. Feel the same desire to serve the country, even though the desire may not have the same form, faith, or consequences. Know where the source lies a simple love for the fatherland. Been in politics for a long time here. I am not one of those. Support thembat or government, but we are united by something deep. Love for the homeland, whether it is the of landscapes in the north of france, the poor neighborhoods around our cities, or otherl deserts, constituencies in france, we feel the same love and this makes us in patients to act sometimes. We feel enthusiastic about action. Sometimes, we feel angry. All of these feelings come from a love of our country. You, like me, have received a mandate from our people, whether you have been elected by the of the population or one constituency, this mandate is just as strong. Whether it is direct or indirect suffrage, that changes nothing. Whether it is a long time ago or recently after a campaign where all of the opinions were able to he expressed in diversity and you expressed different opinions here today. It changes nothing to the collective obligation. This obligation is a duty to resolutely and deeply transform our country. Seen so many disappointments in the past. Retrieveation is to and restore to the french people a confidence to work towards their ideals. People ask us to go back to the spirit of what made france what it was in order to reconcile the french people with themselves. By making that unheard of step the nationals to assembly, the french people have shown they are impatient with the current political system. Way for the french people to say goodbye to certain give trust to to the people gathered in this room. The french have said how important it was for them to work towards change and i am sure that you are all aware of senatorsi am sure that are convinced of that, even though they have been elected for a longer time. By virtue of their mission, have had a chance to constituencies in the population at large. In being faithful to that message, it means that we have to show a certain kind of courage and dignity. More today than yesterday. It is easy to fall back into bad habits marked by cynicism and platitudes. We are living at a time that people are speculating on the kind of failure that would justify their very skepticism and it is up to us to bowl i fears andely those skepticism. It is up to those who do not trust us and those who have not voted in the last election and are disappointed with the ineffectiveness of politicians havenvince them that they something to expect from politician. What is the mandate the french people have given to us exactly . In order to know this, we need to get it out. There is a constant accusation and we need to find more dynamic , whetherm dynamism laws about reforming labor for those who do not have a job or adapting france to the cruelties of the globalize europe and world. A crisisbout avoiding of Public Finance . Children from paying excessive taxes again, we would be criticized. Whether it is about combating the effects of terrorism, again, we will be criticized. Theseer we do, accusations are always level that politicians whenever they try to do something. Ed in a truly root ofial of reality, a denial the real world and what is really happening around us, a blindness to the many emergencies in the current situation, whether security, societal, social, or labor related. Think the french people are much wiser than that and i think that this mandate requires commitment and is profoundly realistic. I think that we need to go andnd the theoretical rhetorical opposition that may tok good, but brings nothing france. Thes our duty to restore strength of the ambitious vision for our country and not to give facileast ill to solutions or illusions of what the country is. What is the mandate that the french people have given us . It is a mandate for a sovereign country, which means being able andake our own choices looking at the reality of the world as there are alienating forces that are very strong and alienating french people with of revolutionary forces at isalization thn disrupting the Business World and alienating forces that lead to so many living in poverty, something we need to combat. Alienating forces in the face of financial forces, if we do not get our budget back on its feet. Forces in the face if we do notrror, find ways to destroy it without giving up on any of our principles. Forces, if we are unable to protect the planet. Alienating forces, in terms of our daily life, in terms of the food our eat and the water we drink are imposed upon us by the relentless international competition. I strongly believe that, on all of these points, the peoples mandate is for us to give its back it back. It is sovereignty, but about change. Tonch citizens have chosen is on thethat france move. They know that, without moving and moving ahead, france is not france. A france thatars, nowhere andgoes notuces nothing, if happiness and vitriol. That is our historic mission. This is my mission and the cabin and submission. Mission. Binets it is not incumbent on a small amount of people. It is incumbent upon everyone. France has great resources in terms of innovation and creativity. I am thinking about every french whoand woman who once wants to carry on with their lives diligently and build a better life or themselves. The mandate that has been given to us to create unity where once there was division, and to give those who feel disadvantaged in society their fair place in society. Allow those who are entrepreneurs, creators, and innovators to go ahead with their project. The peoples mandate is not to ensure the government of an elite for its own benefits. It is to restore to the people the sense of collective dignity which means that you cannot exclude anyone. Yet, all too often we have chosen the wrong solutions. We preferred procedures over results, regulations over initiatives. I think that with the recent elections and choices of the french people, our citizens are asking us to strike a new and. I refuse a new path. I refuse to choose between ambition and fairness. I will not accept that in order to build a quality, you need to give up on excellence. In order to succeed, you do not need to trample on anyone. It is our duty as people and politicians to combine all of these commitments and objectives, and to do all of the above simultaneously. Those who were set in their old ways will be somewhat disrupted in their thinking, and this happens every time a debate arises in our countrys history. But we need to understand the full scope of the efforts that will be imposed by this search for renewal, which it is our job to bring to quotes bring to quelch. The peoples mandate is also a mandate of transparency. Politics is very important to french people. People expect a lot from politicians, and maybe blame politicians for too much, in some cases. But certainly i feel that all of you gathered here are depositories of that desire for change which we cannot betray. This change has two includes have to include behaviors. There cannot be trust or , even if this is cheaters or people who are just looking for their own interests to the detriment of french people. There have been changes in the past, and positive changes. Acceptingopped cronyism, conflicts of interest, those kinds of intangible forms of corruption. However, no one is beyond , even though it is true that we are the depositories of nation haswhich the interested has given to us. We need to make sure that our behavior is correct. Is correct and moral on a daily basis. Because, though we hate corruption, we also hate suspectshere everyone everyone else and announces everyone else. Tohink it is also important ,top looking out for scandal ignoring the presumption of where reputations and. Ives are destroyed frantic exchanging of accusations which we have seen on all sides of the political spectrum is unworthy of our mandate. To go back to this mandate, it is also one of loyalty. The french people once the government to be loyal to the history of our country, but we need to understand what this means, exactly. Over the past years, history has been taken hostage by the political debate, whether it is the identity debate, open , using, closed history colonial history to advance your agenda, whatever it is. It is certainly not right for politicians to take french history hostage. It doesnt mean that french history doesnt exist, or that , whileld be proud of it also looking at the low points in our history. But to us, french history should ornot about commentary acting toagenda, but move forward as a country because we will find it great models and inspiration in our history, and at the end of the. Ay we, too, are what we are the by looking at reality, by looking at our determination, which is to achieve the best, this is what we call progressivism. It is not to think that every ly a goods necessari thing. Identifying what needs to be corrected, amended, rectified, what in some places must be more deeply refounded, renewed. What is missing in society, to make it more just and more ,ffective, or more precisely more just because it is more effective and more effective because it is more just. This is the ethics of action and shared responsibility, loyalty to our history, to our republic an project. It is not just laws or abstract principles. Freedom, ofal of equality, of fraternity. Day we have to rethink this in the light of reality. Political action has meaning only if it is accomplished in the name of a certain ideal of man and women and his human destiny. France has been promoting this idea for a long time. Count, and myust eyes. It is not a society of entrepreneurs were Public Finance being in equilibrium. Those are useful goals, but they are only instruments. They are only tools at the vice of the cause which cause with which the name of fred has been attached for a long time. Views abouterent how to achieve that goal, but i am sure that we dont differ about the goal. ,e remind ourselves regularly sometimes at the worst moments, that we must make our debate more dignified and give it the grandeur and the face of so many failures which we have missed in recent years. In relation to this mandate of the people that we much grow up our policies for the next five years. You will have understood, you already know we havent got five years of adjustments and half measures ahead of us. The french are not simply curious. They are demanding and very intransigent. They hope for deep change. They demand deep change. Let us not fear this change. Lets embrace it, on the contrary. The roadmap of our action has been set during the campaign. You already know the landmarks, the milestones. Our commitments will be kept. The reforms, the deep transformation which i have committed to willie implement it committed to will be implemented. All of this will not be possible or will be possible only if we have a strong republic. There is no strong republic without powerful institutions. Born in difficult times, our institutions can resist periods of trouble. But like all institutions, they are also what we make of them. , theeveral decades now spirit that has given birth to our institutions has become less strong because of bad habits, because of certain renunciation. As a guarantor of public authorities, i will follow three principles. Effectiveness, efficiency, representation, and responsibility. Effectiveness, we need time to think about the laws. We need to design our laws, discuss them, and then pass them. We need the time to make sure that the conditions are right for them to be implemented. Wanting our institutions to be more efficient does not mean sacrificing everything to the god of speed. It means having the right priorities, setting the right priorities. Lets put an end to the proliferation of rule of laws. We know this sickness which has been often referred to, and i hope i may have participated in the pass in the past. Too many laws kill the law and reduces the vigor of law and its meaning. Things cannotn dictate the law. The laws are not there to simply follow the daytoday lives of our country. They are there to deal with the deep trends, the big changes, the key debates, and to set a. Ourse passing fewer laws gives us more time to focus on the laws that really fill the gaps, or which meet new needs. That is the role of parliament. , using parliamentary time better, means reserving more time for monetary for for monitoring and evaluating. We must go further. Not the firstis and most important act of parliament. Our societies have become too complex and too speedy for our laws to achieve their full aims without hitting against the principal of realities. The voices of the people must be heard, and they mustnt be seen as opposing or obstructing the will of the legislator. We will have to work to make sure that we monitor the implementation of the law, ensuring that it stays relevant over time, correcting its impact over time. This is an obligation. Reasons, i wish that a comprehensive review of all important laws, such as the law on social dialogue, on the fight against terrorism, should be carried out over the next two years or over the two years following their limitation. Reevaluate the older laws to open up new lawsbilities of repealing from the past whose existence would represent a break on the good functioning of french society. Finally, the pace of designing laws must meet the needs of society. There are some emergency situations where the speed of parliamentary work is not fast enough. Think of practices to do with digitalization and protection of copyright, or national security. Collective time is too slow today. We need the longterm perspective, but we must also act quickly and swiftly. Therefore, the shuttle between the two houses of parliament should be simplified. We should use commissions work more often. Some of you have already worked on this a lot. All of this must be seriously studied and implemented. I am fully aware of the constraints that parliament has. The lack of resources, the lack of space due to the constraints of today. For this reason, there is a measure with my fellow countrymen have been asking for for a long time, which i think is indispensable the reduction in the number of members of parliament. Mps, butent with fewer with greater resources, would be a parliament whose work would be more fluid. Parliamentarians would have better trained teams and advisers, and they would be able to work better. That is why i will propose to reduce by 1 3 the members of the three constitutional assemblies. I am convinced that this measure will have a positive impact on the quality of parliamentary work. To a sense giving in of antiparliamentarian is him best of antiparliamentarianism. Sense of antiparliamentarianism. Bearing in mind the need to represent all parts of the republic, all geographical regions, both domestic, national, and overseas french counties and territories. It will aim to give the elected officials of the republic more resources and greater weight and more power. The duty of being effective must not only way on parliament. Not onlyot only weigh on parliament. The executive must also play a role. That is the reason why, ladies and gentlemen of the parliament, i have wanted to reserve for you and for you for the french people my First Political speech since my election. Too many of my predecessors were criticized for not speaking enough and explaining enough the meaning and course of their mandate. Too many of my predecessors have taken initiatives without informing parliament sufficiently. I cannot be satisfied with such. Every year, i will come before you again to report to you. Goodwill that and this shows to parliament is criticized by some, they are wrong. They have the wrong vision of or role of a parliamentarian a vague idea of the role of a. Resident the representatives of the people must comply with the rules of the constitution we selected. The president of the republic must set the meaning, the vision, the course of his fiveyear mandate. This is what i am doing today. It is the role of the Prime Minister who leads the action of the government to embody this vision. The Prime Minister will have the heavy task of ensuring the coherence of emulating actions that are taken and making the necessary decisions and arbitrations with the ministers to submit to all of you. I was that this responsibility should be meaningful, and that is why i left the Prime Minister to allocate to each minister clear objectives that they will report on every year to the Prime Minister. Thatiency also requires ministers should be at the heart of public action. With their departments, they should have more direct contact. I also want to reduce the number of members of the private offices of ministers. The renewal of all senior Civil Servants meets that priority. Heads ofs to give the the Government Departments direct knowledge of the policies that they will have to implement, and to share in this way within the government and all Government Departments the responsibility, the shared responsibility with which the people have given us. They will be subject also to the obligation to achieve the results set out in the roadmap agreed with the Prime Minister. But the ministers must not lose sight of the conditions in which their policies will be implemented. I want to Government Departments to be more decentralized, to give advice more than to punish. That is the virtuous circle of effectiveness. It is that kind of government that will give all the territories of france the means of being successful and of acting effectively. Our democracy can only be fueled by action and our ability to change reality and daytoday life. But this concern for effectiveness will not be enough to make our democracy to give the oxygen of which it has been deprived for too long. We want to get rid of the ineffective republic. S means and a the lack of the routine this means getting rid of the routine. With the diversity of french society, which our institutions have to take into account, we have often accepted change only for others, but not for ourselves. The reality is multiple. Life is diverse. For ourm is necessary institutions which would otherwise we get which would otherwise weaken. This diversity is a unique andination of skills destinies of which you are the reflection here today. But all of this was not done by magic. It was done be