They don’t like him, but they chose him again

When he appeared in the 2017 elections, he destroyed the French party system. Still, he will run for a second term as a rather unpopular president.
Some say that the decisive match was the televised duel, after which Macron rode off for another victory. The victory is more convincing than expected, the president took 58.5 percent of the votes in the second round, compared to 41.5 challenger's Marine Le Pen. For Macron, that means another five years in Le Palais de l'lyse.
However, the atmosphere is different than in May 2017, when Macron and his entourage triumphantly entered the courtyard of the Louvre to celebrate the victory. That evening scene could have been historic: a young man who would reform France, and he came from almost nowhere.
Macron acted almost like a providence after the confused predecessor of Franois Hollande. Elegant and eloquent, he was proclaimed the hope of the whole of Europe. The climb, however, was typically French. A descendant of a prominent medical family from the north, he studied at the Sorbonne and the elite National College of Administration (ENA), which punches the political and economic elite.
He worked in the country's financial administration, only to get rich in 2008, when he became an investment banker. He returned to the civil service, where he became the Minister of Economy in Hollande's government in 2014. Only a year later, he left the Socialists and founded his own movement.

On the ruins of traditional parties

At the root of the success is a political assassination - Macron practically buried his mentor Hollande. But also one lucky case for Macron - before the elections, an affair emerged that destroyed the conservative candidate Franois Fillon. Macron took that advantage.
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