MACRON. Candidate for a second term, Emmanuel Macron is running for the 2022 presidential election in growing uncertainty about the outcome of the ballot. His campaign, marked by a form of inertia, ended up installing doubt…
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- Emmanuel Macron will be partly fixed on his fate this Sunday, April 10, in the evening. The result of the outgoing president in the first round of the 2022 presidential election remains one of the great unknowns of this election, while polls are now prohibited and the candidate no longer has the right to promote himself.
- Emmanuel Macron, who has always remained at the top of the polls, entered the campaign late, prevented first by the health crisis, then by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. He focused on a single major national meeting, last Sunday.
- While Marine Le Pen has triggered an upward dynamic in recent weeks, coming close to Emmanuel Macron in the latest polls of voting intentions, doubt has gradually settled in his campaign team. The tenant of the Elysée gave a boost at the end of the week, with several interviews, even making a short visit to a market in Neuilly-sur-Seine on Friday.
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10:14 – The RSA reform seen by Emmanuel Macron
The pension reform is not the only in-depth reform that Emmanuel Macron wishes to pass. The candidate also announced on March 17 the reform of the active solidarity income (RSA) which consists of requiring the beneficiary to compensate for the payment of the social benefit, namely “the obligation to devote 15 to 20 hours per week to an activity leading to professional integration”. The outline of the reform is not yet clearly defined but the campaign team ensures that the working hours will not be community service as provided for in Valérie Pécresse’s proposal. Here it would be “an intensive program of 15 to 20 hours per week” integrating “immersions in companies, social utility missions and internships” explained the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne to the Obs on 22 March. The Marianne newspaper calculated the hourly “salary” paid to beneficiaries for 20 hours of activity and it would be 6.64 euros, the RSA being set at 572 per month.
08/04/22 – 23:26 – Emmanuel Macron does not want “questions of sexual orientation” to be addressed before high school
Asked by a user of Raw, this Friday, April 8, the candidate president indicated that he was not “in favor of it being treated in primary school”. “I think it’s way too early. I’m skeptical about college, but my position is not fixed. I’m in favor, but you have to train teachers to do it and it’s a real job, in high school “, he clarified.
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What are the poll results for Emmanuel Macron?
Voting intentions in favor of Emmanuel Macron were measured almost daily during the campaign. The polls have been scrutinized to determine the main trends, but they are only a snapshot of voters’ opinion at a given time and should not be interpreted as predictions of the results of the presidential election. During the reserve period, the two days preceding the election, it is forbidden to publish new polls or to give indications on the latest trends. Find below our compilation of surveys published this Friday.
What about Emmanuel Macron’s program? The Head of State intends, as he said during his only meeting in Nanterre, to develop a “project of real rights, solidarity, social progress”. An inflection towards solidarity and purchasing power, women’s rights, child protection and education, with in particular the tripling of the Macron bonus, a 50% increase in aid for single mothers or even a “big school project”. But Emmanuel Macron assumes “that it will be necessary to work more”, in particular by conditioning the RSA to an activity and by pushing back the retirement age. He also fully defends the European project and intends to make France the “first great nation to get out of fossil fuels”, in particular by relying on nuclear power.
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Born in 1977 in Amiens (Somme), Emmanuel Macron is the son of a couple of doctors. Eldest of the siblings, Emmanuel Macron has a brother and a sister. During his childhood, he spent a lot of time with his maternal grandmother, principal of a college, to whom he owes his political commitment. The young Emmanuel Macron lived a bourgeois and provincial childhood, and received an education with the Jesuits of Providence, in Amiens. After a baccalaureate S, he entered hypokhâgne and khâgne B/L at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, then joined Sciences Po Paris in 1998 and obtained, in parallel, a master’s degree and a master’s degree (license today, editor’s note) and a DEA (Master 2). He then entered the ENA in Strasbourg (2002-2004) then was assigned to the Finance Inspectorate after a stint at the French Embassy in Nigeria and the Oise prefecture. For three years, he worked at the General Inspectorate of Finance, then signed with the Rothschild investment bank in 2008, on the recommendation of Jacques Attali. He works on various important files, such as the takeover of Cofidis by Crédit Mutuel, the sale of the newspaper Le Monde, or the takeover of certain Nestlé activities by Pfizer.
Committed to the PS from 2006, he supported Ségolène Royal then François Hollande despite the Socialist Party’s refusal to invest him in Picardy for the legislative elections of 2007. Support of the future President of the Republic, the latter offered him to become Deputy Secretary General of the Elysée in 2012, before appointing him Minister of the Economy in 2014. A position he held for two years, before resigning to run for the presidential election and settle in the Elysée, beating Marine The pen.