Debate of the day

Economy: Can Macron unite?

Audio 29:30

Emmanuel Macron on the Champ-de-Mars after his victory in the second round of the presidential election.

© Pierre René-Worms / RFI

By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

Freshly re-elected as head of the French state, Emmanuel Macron finds a fractured country as illustrated by the second round marked by high abstention and the extreme right above 40%.

And it is in particular on the economic question and particularly that of purchasing power that the cleavage is the most important. 

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After a five-year term marked by the crisis of "Yellow Vests", will Emmanuel Macron manage to appease the anger?

Will his program allow him to break away from his image of "President of the rich", by bringing more social justice?

With our guests

- Julien Fretel

, professor of political science at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, co-director of the book L'entreprise Macron (Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2019)

- Jean Hervé Lorenzi

, economist, founder of the Circle of economists and co-author of the book

, (Odile Jacob, 2021)

- Henri Sterdyniak

, economist, founder and member of the Economists atterrés.

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