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🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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When Emmanuel Macron followed up his victory in France’s presidential election with another win in the parliamentary elections, he looked set to carry out his promise to change France. Journalists wrote articles on how the Macron 'effect' was going to make France one of the world’s major powers and end Germany’s economic dominance of Europe. But the reality of enacting painful economic reforms has led to protests on the streets and a plummeting popularity rating. Lucy Williamson, looks at Macron’s first 12 months in office.
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0:00.0 | I think he's actually the president that we were waiting for because he's the one to make reforms and he's not |
0:14.8 | scared of shaking everything in France political life. |
0:20.0 | It's a new v. It's a few- It's a full president. |
0:26.0 | It's just empty air. |
0:28.0 | He's a fake president. |
0:29.0 | You get what you deserve. |
0:30.0 | We'll have to put up with him until we can get rid of him. |
0:36.0 | We must not forget that 40% of the vote went to the right-east and left-east populist parties. |
0:47.0 | Macron, it was a kind of miracle. |
0:51.0 | A year ago, Emmanuel Macron rewrote the rules of French politics. At 39 years old, in his first |
0:58.2 | attempt at elected office, with no traditional party behind him, he became the nation's president. |
1:04.3 | On that victory night, he stood before a sea of jubilant supporters in the ornate once royal |
1:15.0 | surroundings of the Louvre and vowed to unite their disillusioned and |
1:19.2 | divided nation by transforming France's economy, its politics and its place in the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, which in so many places is not respected. They're waiting for us to defend liberty |
1:46.4 | to protect the oppressed. They are waiting for us to bring new hope, a new humanism, that of a safer world. |
1:55.0 | They are waiting for us to become ourselves. |
1:59.0 | I'm Lucy Williamson, the BBC's Paris correspondent and I've covered Mr Macron from the first early glimmers of his presidential bid through his extraordinary election campaign and his first year |
2:16.1 | in office. |
2:17.5 | One year in, I'll be looking at what effect he's had on France, what kind of president |
2:22.3 | he's turning out to be, and what voters think of the man |
2:26.2 | who promised to remake their country. |
2:29.6 | M'u-Jouge. Emmanuel Macron was lifted to power. Manu movement called Amash or on the move made up largely of volunteers with no |
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