With five straight years of light and shade, the Liberal leader could break with the string of single-term presidents this Sunday in case he wins again in the race to the Elysee.
Emmanuel Macron (Amiens, 1977) debates this Sunday with the far-right candidate Marine LePen (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1968) to declare himself President of the French Republic in this second round of elections.
Macron, educated at the prestigious Sciences Po, began working on 2004 What inspector of the Ministry of Economy and Finance to later resign from his office as a civil servant and pursue a career in a private company.
Years later, in 2012started collaborating with the socialist Francois Hollande in his campaign for president. With his triumph, Macron started a… key figure within the new government, a regular participant in international forums; Little by little he even had a ministerial portfolio
However, the path led him to distance himself from his mentor, to the point where he… 2016 his own “brand”, the one he came to call a ?? “democratic revolution” So with Ongoing, who from Amiens presented himself to the world as a candidate alien to the traditional parties; a kind of alternative to the exhaustion of the socialists and conservatives.
He managed to slip through the cracks of the system he criticized, but which in turn had been part of, and the move went well for him. With a collapsed socialist party and a conservative front punctuated by scandal, Macron won the keys to the Elysée Palace in the election 2017 Achieved in May of that year two out of three votes in the second round he became the youngest president of modern France.
Five years with ups and downs
With a formal feast behind him, The Republic on the movesince his first win, Macron has been trying to liberal and Europeanist agenda It has not been without light and shadow. the protests of yellow vests They symbolized the discontent of a section of society towards its president. Likewise, the opposition began accusing him of “Napoleonic traits”, of governing in a personalistic way and being slow in his responses.
However, these last months will be remembered for the Ukrainian war in which Macron was forced to change his internal political strategy to bet on a mediator role of the conflict. In this sense, in the eyes of Europe and NATO, the current president has carved a picture for himself of: solid leader
In this way, Macron strives to break through the series of one-time presidents (Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande) and thus earn a place on the list of the likes of Jacques Chirac, François Mitterrand and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who managed several periods of five years in the Elysee.
Source: EITB
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