(CNN) – The following is a glimpse into the life of France’s president, Emmanuel Macron.
Personal information
Date of birth: December 21, 1977.
Place of birth: Amiens, France.
Birth name: Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron.
Padre: Jean-Michel Macron, profesor de neurología.Output: Father: Jean-Michel Macron, neurology professor.
Mother: Françoise Noguès-Macron, physician.
Marriage: Brigitte Trogneux (2007-present).
Education: Université Paris Nanterre; Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (“Sciences Po”); Escuela Nacional de Administración, 2004.
Religion: Baptized as a Roman Catholic at the age of 12, but his spokesperson describes him as a “spiritual agnostic”.
Other information
At the age of 39, Macron became the youngest president in the history of France.
Before being elected president of France, he had never held a position in public office.
Macron, a centrist, has stated that his objective is to unite the people of France, without favoring the left or right.
He promoted the so-called “Macron Law”, which aimed to shake up the economy through labor reform during his time as Minister of Economy. The measure had to be forced through the National Assembly with the help of a controversial parliamentary measure and resulted in several days of protests.
He worked on Francois Hollande’s presidential campaign in 2012.
At that time, she was married and had three children, although Macron stated that he would eventually marry her. Brigitte Trogneux, Macron’s wife, was his theater teacher in high school when Macron was 17 years old.
Cronología
2004-2008: Inspector of Finance of the Ministry of Economy.
2008-2012: Investment banker at Rothschild & Cie Banque in Paris.
From June 2012 to 2014, he served as the deputy secretary general of President Hollande.
On August 26, 2014, he replaces Arnaud Montebourg as the Minister of Economy, Industry, and Digital Affairs.
“The law is referred to as the “Macron Law”. He is the primary designer of a bill for economic reform that aims to promote growth, productivity, and equal chances. 2015:”
April 6, 2016: Announces the launch of the political movement En Marche! (“In Motion!”).
“I am determined to do everything possible so that our values, ideas, and actions can transform France starting from next year,” asserts Macron when he announces his resignation from the position of Minister of Economy on August 30, 2016, suggesting that he needs time to prepare for a presidential candidacy.
On November 16, 2016, he officially declares his candidacy for the presidency of France.
November 2016: Macron’s book, “Révolution,” is published. He presents his vision of France.
In the first round of the presidential elections, Macron receives over 23% of the votes, while the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen barely reaches 22% on April 23, 2017.
“To create confusion and misinformation,” the hackers mixed fake documents with authentic ones, according to officials from Macron’s party. Through links to over 70,000 files, around 14.5 gigabytes of emails, personal and business documents are published on the text-sharing site, Pastebin, as claimed by Macron’s campaign team, in a “massive and coordinated hacking operation.” Less than 48 hours before the second and final round of the presidential elections, Macron falls victim to this operation on May 5, 2017.
Macron defeats Le Pen with over 66% of the votes and becomes the next president of France: May 7, 2017.
May 14, 2017: He takes office as president.
During a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, Macron requests an end to the alleged repression against homosexual men in Chechnya on May 29, 2017.
At least 50% of people voted. Although the parliamentary elections mark the first round of voting, Macron’s party obtains the majority of votes: June 11, 2017.
France is celebrating its second round of parliamentary elections on June 18, 2017, and, with 97% of the voting results counted, Macron’s party is on track to win a decisive majority of 300 seats.
In a video about climate change, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, echoes Emmanuel Macron and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign slogan “restore the planet’s greatness.” Macron and Schwarzenegger are seen in the clip, which was shared on Twitter by Schwarzenegger, expressing their commitment to “making the planet great again.”
Provoked by terrorism, the country’s state of emergency will be lifted later by Macron, who delivers a speech to lawmakers. Additionally, the suspect, who describes himself as a right-wing nationalist, told investigators that he wanted to make a political statement. During a Bastille Day parade in Paris, a 23-year-old man planned to attack Macron, according to authorities. The police foiled the assassination plot, according to a spokesperson for the Paris prosecutor’s office, on July 3, 2017.
Macron pressurizes the United States to rejoin the Climate Agreement and engage more in global issues. In a joint meeting of Congress, he delivered a speech on April 25, 2018.
Macron addresses the weeks of tumultuous protests in a broadcasted speech on December 10, 2018, asserting that the protests have been “inadmissible” and “will not be accepted under any circumstances.” Additionally, he suggests numerous societal changes, including a rise in the lowest permissible salary.
The strong remarks from Macron came after the Donald Trump administration withdrew US forces from northern Syria in November, a move that dismayed European members of NATO. During a press conference at the NATO summit in London on December 3, 2019, Macron reiterated his comments, warning that Europe is facing the “brain death of NATO” caused by American indifference towards the transatlantic alliance. Trump described the comments as “unpleasant” and “insulting”.
Macron asserts, during his speech in Les Mureaux, a suburb located in the northwest of Paris, on October 2, 2020, that “Islam is presently facing a global crisis” and presents a strategy aimed at addressing “Islamic separatism”.
“No abandonaremos las ilustraciones, los dibujos, incluso si otros están retrocediendo”, añadió el presidente. Francia continuará “apreciando los debates, los argumentos lógicos, amaremos la ciencia y sus disputas”, Macron elogia al profesor por tener “una pasión por el conocimiento”. 21 de octubre de 2020: durante un evento nacional en memoria del profesor Samuel Paty, quien fue decapitado en un ataque terrorista en un suburbio del norte de París después de mostrar las polémicas ilustraciones de Charlie Hebdo a sus estudiantes durante una lección.
According to a statement from his office, Macron will self-isolate for a week after experiencing symptoms and testing positive for coronavirus on December 17, 2020.
On June 8, 2021, during a visit to the southeastern region of France, Macron was slapped by a man in the crowd, as shown in a video of the incident shared on social media. Following that, the man receives a four-month prison sentence.
At the end of the upcoming month, Macron and Biden will have a telephonic meeting to discuss their agreement to equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. This diplomatic crisis between the two allies emerged for the first time in September 2021, when President Joe Biden spoke about it.