Macron’s Next Challenge: Defending His Majority in Parliament
The president’s second term could be a lot harder than his first.
The president’s second term could be a lot harder than his first.
Emmanuel Macron is the first French president in twenty years to win reelection.
French pensions are too generous. The pension system is too expensive.
Takeaways from the first presidential voting round in France.
This presidential election will be a rematch of the last.
The president promised to make France competitive and confident again, and he has.
Policies include leaving NATO, legalizing cannabis, raising the retirement age and renationalizing motorways.
What the French president has, and hasn’t, got done in five years.
The offer is seen as political calculation by his opponents.
The French president’s liberalism stops at the border.
Eight weeks out from the opening round, Emmanuel Macron remains the favorite.
Éric Zemmour reduces the French to victims. Emmanuel Macron gives them agency.
Party members eliminate the two best candidates against the president.
A Franco-German plan to relax antitrust rules is defeated.
Unless some of his rivals unite, the president is almost certain to win reelection.