COMMUNICATED . Christophe Euzet, deputy for the 7th district of Hérault: “Happy holidays to all”
What message do you want to send on the eve of these very special holidays?
“In this period of great uncertainty about the future, I would like to send my warmest wishes for happiness to my compatriots and, of course, especially to those of the 7th district of Hérault. This mandate, which began in the summer of 2017, will be decidedly the most complicated that a legislature has been given to manage since the Algerian war. One thing is clear, however: despite our mistakes and our doubts, and even if the period is difficult, thanks to everyone’s efforts, we collectively are doing very well, in a most disastrous international context. Are you worried about the future? We all have fears about the future. As a husband, as a father of two, as a son of parents who are advancing in age, I worry like everyone else for tomorrow. For our health, for the economic situation and employment, for the stability of our country, for the international situation: the crises that last are never good in the eyes of history. However, I believe that we must take advantage of the moment which is offered to us, even if it is complicated, to share what can be, to call us when it is not possible, to talk, to give a little each of us in this period that we are all living a bit in hollow. “
What will you do for Christmas?
“Personally, I will receive my parents for Christmas dinner with the same apprehension and the same annoyance as everyone else, with rigorous respect for barrier gestures as they say, which is not at all exciting, it is necessary I just can’t wait: that our life gets back to normal, that our restaurants, our cinemas, the cafes to which we are so attached can resume a normal activity. That our cinemas, our theaters, our museums and our traditional festivals come back to life. May we welcome the friends who are dear to us. May our children find their way back to normal youth. May worries about the employment situation dissipate. We are all tired, because we are morally put to a very severe test: I think that the days that come must be those of a regenerative break. That they allow us to put our anxieties, our resentments, our future struggles aside, and ‘appease our conscience are in need of it. Personally, these confinements and this strange period allowed me to take stock of many things and to relearn to distinguish what is essential from what is less so. Parents, family, real friends, the cohesion of the country in which we live appear to me to be essential. I have a feeling that cultivating hatred and resentment does not do us any good. When it is difficult and complicated, it is better to stick together; help each other and become one; to cope. I always thought so, but today I am more convinced of it. “
Taking a break for the holidays?
“Yes. I will try to take a few days between Christmas and New Years. I have asked my whole team to do the same. Everyone is tired. We need to recharge our batteries with those who are with us. are expensive. Everything will restart very quickly, soon after. Parliamentary work will be supported because it will take legal measures to combat the harmful effects of the pandemic and give life to this famous recovery plan, on which we are counting a lot to bounce back all together.”
And to your fellow citizens of the 7th district of Hérault, what are you saying on Christmas Eve?
“I tell them that they can count on my investment and that I will give them a precise inventory of my activity and my future prospects as soon as this festive period is over. Today is not the time. I tell them that I wish them very happy holidays, despite the difficult conditions in which they take place; that our individual self-sacrifice and our collective courage will soon be rewarded; that we must not give in to the deleterious climate of permanent defeatism maintained by those who want to put everything down; that 2021 will be, I hope – in any case, surrounded by my team, I will do everything that will be small enough to contribute to it – a year of rediscovered hope, regenerated optimism and happiness in construction for the younger generations for whom we work above all. Finally, I tell them that after winter always returns spring and that, mobilized together, with self-sacrifice, we have the means to build a more prosperous and happy spring. Happy New Year’s Eve to all of you! “
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