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Who is Emmanuel Macron? Cracking the riddle of France’s divisive president

France’s June parliamentary elections dealt a heavy blow to President Emmanuel Macron and his place in France’s political arena. Holding an outright legislative majority in 2017, with 345 of 577 seats, his parliamentary group shrunk to 245 – a drop of 100 seats. That left him 34 short of the…

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2022

Appointment of Pap Ndiaye as education minister highlights ‘woke’ debate in France

After French president Emmanual Macron won reelection on 24 April, one of his surprise appointments to the new government was historian Pap Ndiaye as minister of education. The choice of a relative newcomer to politics, who presents himself as both a “symbol of diversity” and “a pure product of republican meritocracy,”…

The Conversation · Jun 23, 2022