MACRON. Emmanuel Macron will he seek the confidence of the French to remain President of the Republic? If the President of the Republic has not yet given his decision on a candidacy, the polls show him in a position of strength.
After Charles de Gaulle, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, will Emmanuel Macron be the sixth President of the Republic to be a candidate for his own succession? “I want” he told readers of Parisian early January during an interview. But for the moment, no official declaration of candidacy. The head of state wants to wait, especially because of the country’s health situation. However, the candidacy of the tenant of the Elysee Palace is hardly in doubt in public opinion, polls on voting intentions again giving him the winner in (almost) every survey.
Emmanuel Macron candidate for the presidential election in 2022?
He says he “wants”, but still postpones the formalization of his decision. Emmanuel Macron has still not announced his intention to run for a second and last term as President of the Republic or not. While on the side of La République en Marche, everything has been in order for several weeks to praise the merits of their leader, defend his record and convince voters to reinforce him for five more years at the Palace, the Head of State still wants to wait. “As soon as there are sanitary conditions which allow it and that I have clarified this subject, in myself and in relation to the political equation, I will say what it is”, he said. explained in The Parisian of January 4, specifying that “this decision is consolidated in my heart”. In the history of the Fifth Republic, the official announcements of outgoing presidents running for a new term were made no earlier than two months before the first round. Emmanuel Macron should, in turn, be part of this calendar.
Presidential poll results
It is an understatement to say that Emmanuel Macron is favorite to his own succession. According to the many polls carried out, regardless of the institute, the President of the Republic appears at the top of the voting intentions in the first round, collecting between 20 and 26% of the votes of the voters. Moreover, in the second round, he would be reinforced in his role. However, the match promises to be closer against Valérie Pécresse than Marine Le Pen. The head of state would be jostled by the president of the Île-de-France region (51 to 54% of the votes). A poll conducted on December 6 and 7 by Elabe even gave him the loser (48%). This is a unique scenario. Faced with the candidate of the National Rally, Emmanuel Macron would not tremble, accumulating between 54 and 58% of the votes.
Emmanuel Macron’s program
If he is not yet officially a candidate, Emmanuel Macron has already set the course on certain subjects that he aims to cover for a new term. Starting with the pension reform, abandoned until the national election. The president announced it: “it will be necessary to work longer”. Pushing back the retirement age is therefore once again in the cards, to which is added “an exit from special regimes” desired by the Head of State.
The latter, in his interview with Parisian at the beginning of January, also announced that he would not increase taxes, that he wanted to “review the working hours of some caregivers, resume cycles so that they work in good conditions and paying them with dignity”, all by ensuring their continuous training, but also “to revalue the salaries” and “especially to rethink the function” of teacher, proposing in particular to “give to certain schools [la liberté] to build their own educational project according to their territory. ”Finally, he wishes to think about a reform of inheritance rights to“ support people to help them pass on modest heritage ”.
Biography of Emmanuel Macron
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 owed 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 bac 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 and a master’s degree (license today, editor’s note) and a DEA (Master 2). He then joined the ENA in Strasbourg (2002-2004) then was assigned to the Financial 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 is working 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.
Engaged in the PS from 2006, he supports Ségolène Royal then François Hollande despite the refusal of the Socialist Party to invest him in Picardy for the legislative elections of 2007. Support of the future President of the Republic, the latter offers him to become Deputy Secretary General of the Elysee Palace 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 at the Elysee Palace by beating Marine The pen.