Emmanuel Macron who will seek a second term as president of France on April 24 This is very different from the one who flirted with the country in 2017 as a candidate almost came from outside politics to live on the Elysee.

The one who was then the youngest man (no female president yet) to reach head of state in 2017 at the age of 39, lost substantial political capital in his significant five -year term at the Elysée.

A serious crisis at home (the “yellow vest” protests) and two others with a global reach (the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine) have greatly exacerbated an order where the controversies do not stop.

In the distance seemed the politician with a young and attractive appearance, who attracted the French and went from almost unknown to occupying the Head of State.

If then Macron had promised a “revolution” with very ambitious change, now he is content to continue the course he has takenwith reforms such as pensions and goals, and a more moderate tone.

Experience in the face of crisis

Its current packaging is an experienced technocrat proposing to continue piloting the country with a definite hand, very different to the newcomer whose no party took over the political skies in 2017.

“There will be more crises” and when they come, the French “You’ll have a definite idea of ​​how I’m going to act”Macron adopted in the presentation of his program, a more technical than outrageous compendium of proposals.

True to his goal of opening a third way between conservatives and socialists, has combined the right dimensions (such as eliminating the wealth tax or the promise to raise the retirement age) to others on the left (such as generous subsidies for layers most sensitive to rising energy prices or basic commodities).

But his most well -known proposal is, possibly, the “whatever it takes” approach. where the State has injected large amounts of money to support businesses forced to close during the 2020/21 lockdown and pay the wages of those unable to work.

Defender of the fight against climate change and Ukraine after the invasion, Emmanuel Macron has provided valuable leadership both in the European Union (EU) and around the world, seeking to maintain France’s unique position in the world.

European leadership

In the EU, it became Angela Merkel’s addition to the Franco-German axis and, after her departure, has taken a leading role taking advantage of the foreign inexperience of the new German chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

The son of doctors born in Amiens (north) although with southern roots, Macron acknowledges his passion for the Pyrenees, as his maternal grandmother was from a town near the Spanish community of Aragon.

He was trained, like many other French leaders, at the National School of Administration (ENA), a true nursery of the ruling class of Francean institution that praised its quality as well as desecrated the alleged elitism of its graduates.

After debuting in the Administration as a tax inspector, in 2008 he joined the Rothschild business bank, with which he became a partner two years later.

From there he returned to the public sector, but at a higher level. First is deputy general secretary of the Elysée and then Minister of the Economy (2014) with socialist president François Hollande, a position he left two years later to launch his attack on the Presidency.

Make a match for you (La República en Marcha, LREM) to win Legislative power and achieve an absolute majority in the National Assembly. But the formation, which lacks territorial implantation, is not controlled by the Senate.

Addressed in a recent interview with a photo of his arrival at the Elysee, Macron, whose temples are illuminated by the gray hair left by the man who captured France in 2017, he acknowledged in a melancholy voice: “I’m afraid I’ve changed a bit and gotten older. I know”.

Source: EFE

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