Sipping coffee at dawn near the French parliament, Adrien Taquet pondered his friend Emmanuel Macron’s first six months as president. He personally came up with the name for Macron’s “neither left nor right” political movement “En Marche” (On the move). France’s youngest modern leader has presented himself as attempting the biggest overhaul of the French social model and welfare system in modern France. He was elected on a vote to reject the old political class and at the same he’s bringing a project that doesn’t suit everyone. Jérôme Fourquet, a political scientist from Ifop pollsters, said Macron’s first six months saw him continue his quest to destroy the old political class.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 04:52 UTC