Here's Everything You Need To Know About The 39-Year-Old Who Could Be France's Next President
He’s a centrist narrowly leading the polls over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen — and he’s a lot more establishment than he’d like you to think.
Hello! This is Emmanuel Macron.
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— being neither left or right politically (but also not in the center, at the top, or at the bottom).
— being married to his former French teacher (she's 63, he's 39).
— being the youngest of the 11 presidential candidates.
— his particularly impassioned speech at a December campaign rally, when he became a meme for urging supporters to carry on his PROJEEEECCTT.
Macron is pretty happy right now because he's doing well in the polls.
Given Republican candidate François Fillon is mired in about 35,600 scandals at the moment and Socialist Benoît Hamon is struggling to bring the left together, Macron's chances of winning are on the rise. But it remains to be seen whether he can beat the far-right Marine Le Pen, who currently trails him by just one percentage point in the first-round polls.
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