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Macron wants to be France’s protector-in-chief

20 March 2025

7:56 PM

20 March 2025

7:56 PM

It has long been said by some of Emmanuel Macron’s opponents that he is a president who ‘governs by fear’. It began with his management of Covid five years, when he imposed on France one of the most stringent lockdowns in the world. ‘We are at war’, he declared in a televised address to the nation on 16 March.

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