This is the final article in a series looking at why Emmanuel Macron isn’t the liberal hero he has been painted as. Each week this summer, I examined an area of the new French president’s politics that doesn’t quite live up to the hype. Read the whole series.
He admitted it early on: Emmanuel Macron isn’t a Socialist. As François Hollande’s Economy minister, he was never a member of the then-president’s party. “Honesty forces me to tell you that I am not a Socialist,” Macron declared to journalists in 2016.
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