French President Emmanuel Macron said that he had not decided yet to run for a second presidential term, and that he would exercise his presidential duties entrusted to him by the French people until “the last quarter of an hour of the current presidential term,” as he put it. This came during an expanded press conference held at the Elysee Palace in Paris to announce the outlines of the French rotating presidency of the European Union for the year 2022, which begins next January.
“The presidential mandate granted to me by the French, I will exercise until the last quarter of an hour, and our challenges related to health, immigration and energy impose on me specific choices… and I will continue to work until the end of my term, and of course there will be important choices that I will make within weeks or months before the end of my term, when I will be facing this,” Macron said. situation, I will.”
The presidential election race in France began early, with most candidates entering the electoral campaign openly before its official launch date, to gain the confidence of the French, ahead of the presidential elections that France will witness on the tenth of next April.
Regarding his country’s rotating presidency of the European Union, Emmanuel Macron said that the goal of the French presidency is to move from a cooperative Europe within its borders to a Europe that is strong in the world, fully sovereign, and defining its own destiny.
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