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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (French: [emanɥɛl makʁɔ̃] ⓘ; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. He previously was Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016 and deputy secretary-general to the president from 2012 to 2014.
Macron was dubbed the "president of the very rich" by former Socialist French president François Hollande. [14] In the past, Macron called himself a " socialist "; [ 15 ] since August 2015, he labelled himself as a "centrist liberal", refusing observations by critics that he is an "ultra-liberal" economically. [ 1 ]
The party and Macron were both reprimanded by President Hollande and the question of Macron's loyalty to the government was raised. [13] [14] Several MEPs spoke out in support of the party, [15] although the majority of the Socialist Party spoke against En Marche ! including Valls, [16] Michel Sapin, [17] Axelle Lemaire and Christian Eckert. [18]
Emmanuel Macron has been accused of making sexist, racist and homophobic remarks by the French newspaper Le Monde. The report alleges that Macron told his former health minister Aurélien Rousseau ...
The job of president is Macron’s first elected office. In his 30s, Macron quit his job as a banker at Rothschild to become Socialist President Francois Hollande’s economic adviser, working for ...
President Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European ancestry. [1] [2] His father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982), [3] was a Luo Kenyan [4] from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya. [5]
President Emmanuel Macron looks set to face off against the far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in an increasingly narrow fight for re-election, opinion polls
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.