Belarusians have been demonstrating across the country for nearly a month since disputed presidential elections.

But the president held back, telling a small group of reporters that "emulation" was a positive. Copyright© Mediacorp 2020.

LaRem's campaign crumbled with the sting on Griveaux, but the seeds of defeat had been sown months earlier, with Griveaux's selection. Macron had hoped that local elections would provide the grassroots base that his young centrist party, LaRem, lacks ahead of his 2022 re-election bid. Au Revoir, Macron!
Macron fought the Presidential election in France at a time of growing disillusion in France with the EU. Villani had entered politics, and parliament, in 2017 with LaRem but, after being rejected as its mayoral candidate, decided to run as an independent, and ate into Griveaux's support. In July 2019, a LaRem committee picked him over Cedric Villani, an eccentric maths genius known for his spider brooches and silk cravats.

One disgruntled LaRem lawmaker put it simply: "We had gold in our hands and we turned it to lead.". This service is not intended for persons residing in the EU.

As one government minister put it: "We've done almost everything we shouldn't have done. Putin, along with Chinese President Xi Jinping, was one of the few key world leaders to congratulate Lukashenko after the poll. Party officials urged Macron to offer Villani an incentive to drop his maverick campaign, reminiscent of Macron's own rise to power, or eject him from the party. Mediacorp Pte Ltd. All rights reserved. But Macron's confidant compared the loyalty to Griveaux to an alliance forged in war.

It fell again last winter during weeks of demonstrations against pension reforms, and transport strikes. And a year ago, before Griveaux's nomination, incumbent Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo was deeply unpopular for her efforts to reduce traffic in the capital, and surveys showed a Macron candidate beating her. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, "The time has come when you have to say it like it is.". He concluded: "Left-wing voters may stay home rather than vote for Macron in the runoff, as they did in 2017.

JUST IN: Emmanuel Macron's 'self-DESTRUCTIVE' Brexit position exposed. And Paris's City Hall, long in the grip of the left, seemed there for the taking. Mr Taylor wrote: "Despite massive government spending on furlough measures to cushion the immediate shock of a two-month nationwide lockdown, the French economy has been among the hardest hit in Europe. He nonetheless fought and won the campaign on a counter-intuitive platform of “more Europe”. "Even with a big rebound next year, gross domestic product is unlikely to return to its pre-crisis level before the April 2022 presidential election, and the spectre of mass unemployment is back.". France's president-elect Emmanuel Macron has promised to "fight the divisions that undermine France," after defeating far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. But many saw Griveaux, who served as Macron's first government spokesman, as arrogant and patronising. "He wasn't liked. Two sources close to Macron said he had believed Villani's bid would naturally fade.
The talks were the latest in a string of regular contacts between Macron and Putin. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Macron has consistently rewarded the early backers of his 2017 bid for the presidency, party insiders say. Au Revoir Macron!

It could end up as a handy guide: 'How to lose an election'.". Now, three days before Sunday's nationwide municipal elections, Macron's stand-in candidate, former health minister Agnes Buzyn, is polling more than 20 points behind Hidalgo, seemingly having lost ground since the first round in March. (REUTERS) "It's like (French wartime resistance leader) De Gaulle and the Communists: They had nothing in common but, 20 years later, once he was in the Elysee, the General still took calls from those who had been with him in London.". By AFP. "He emphasized the need to find again the path of dialogue.". The Bank of France expects a nine percent recession. Macron told Putin he is "very worried about the situation in Belarus and the violence that citizens have faced during the elections," the Elysee said in a statement. newspaper archive.

Mr Taylor, who is also a senior fellow at the think-tank Friends of Europe, argued that while the young, centrist leader may have triumphed on the European stage by convincing Germany to embrace joint borrowing to power a giant EU recovery fund, at home, he now faces a tough crowd.

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