Referring to his two presidential election victories in 2017 and 2022, Macron said: 'It so happens that if I am here before you, it is because I was elected twice by the French people.
He was also the first person in the history of the current French Republic to be elected president without support from socialists due to his centrist views. Macron is the first French president ...
The French president is known for his pitch-perfect political skills. But he seems to have misjudged the broad drift to the right sweeping across Europe.
French assets were taking the government’s fall in their stride early Thursday, though the extra cost Paris must pay to borrow remained close to 12-year peaks.