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Emmanuel Macron

Role
French president
Lived
1977–
Country of activity
France France
Strongest axis
Internationalism 83%

Emmanuel Macron has been president of France since 2017, elected as founder of a centrist movement. A former investment banker and economy minister, he supports European integration, labor-market and pension reform and state secularism.

In the 12 Axes register, Emmanuel Macron leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Internationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.

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The twelve axes

Where Emmanuel Macron sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.

Government

FederalUnitary 68%

Unitary

Leads a unitary state, limited decentralization

Democratic 68%Autocratic

Representative Democracy

Elected president in a representative system

SecurityFreedom

Centrist

Expanded security laws, defends liberal democracy

Diplomacy

Internationalism 83%Nationalism

Internationalism

Advocates deeper European integration

Militarist 68%Pacifist

Military-Focused

Raised defense budgets

Assimilationist 68%Multiculturalist

Assimilationist

Republican universalism over community identity

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize 68%

Economic Liberal

Labor and pension reforms favor business

PlannedMarkets 68%

Markets

Pro-market reform agenda

IsolationismGlobalism 68%

Free Trade

Supports EU trade with safeguards

Society

Irreligious 68%Religious

Agnostic

Agnostic defender of secularism

Progressive 68%Traditional

Progressive

Liberal on social issues

Acceleration 68%Bioconservative

Technological

Promotes startups, AI and nuclear power

What stands out

Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.

Most distinctive axis

Planned – Markets

On Planned – Markets, Emmanuel Macron is at Markets 68%. The register median is Planned 68%.

Most ordinary axis

Federal – Unitary

On Federal – Unitary, Emmanuel Macron is at Unitary 68%, almost the register median of Unitary 68%.

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Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.

Sources and image credit

Portrait: Nebojša Tejić, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.

About these positions

The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].