French economy minister Emmanuel Macron this week announced the launch of his political movement, En Marche, raising speculation that he was preparing a bid for next year’s presidential elections. Macron, a former advisor to socialist president François Hollande and who holds no elected office, declared that his movement was neither left- nor right-wing. But, as Laurent Mauduit reports, it is in fact domiciled at the private address of the director of one of the leading think tanks of French business.
French economy minister Emmanuel Macron was a little economic with the truth when he this week presented, at what was described as a “citizen’s rally” in his home town of Amiens, in northern France, the launch of his political movement “En Marche” (on the move).
