Political positions of Emmanuel Macron

Uncommon card · No. 75234

Emmanuel Macron, the 25th president of France, positions himself as a liberal and a centrist. The political practice based on the positions and rhetoric of Macron has been colloquially referred to as Macronism (French: Macronisme). When he launched his party En Marche in April 2016, he said that it was "neither right nor left". By March 2017, Macron stated that he and his party were now "both right and left". Prior to the establishment of En Marche, some observers described him as a social liberal, while others called him a social democrat,, as he has been a member of the Socialist Party. During his time in the Socialist Party, he supported the party's centrist wing, whose political stance has been associated with Third Way policies advanced by Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and Gerhard Schröder, and whose leading spokesman has been former prime minister Manuel Valls. Macron is accused by some members of the yellow vest movement of being an "ultra-liberal president for the rich". Macron was...

Read on Wikipedia · Image .mw-parser-output .ubx-floatdefault[dir="ltr"],.mw-parser-output .ubx-floatopposite[dir="rtl"],.mw-parser-output .ubx-floatleft{float:left}.mw-parser-output .ubx-floatdefault[dir="rtl"],.mw-parser-ou…, CC BY-SA 4.0