Queenie
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Emmanuel Macron: After French president's meteoric rise, a rocky road lay ahead Emmanuel Macron won office in 2017 running as an independent centrist and an ambitious reformer. The youngest president elected in France's modern political era, Macron's rise to the Élysée Palace atop a fledgling party he had founded himself was swift and iconoclastic. But far from that smooth road, his five-year term was pockmarked with pitfalls and unprecedented crises. Now vying for re-election, Macron, beloved or hated, is as divisive as ever.