The biography, private life, income and salary of Emmanuel Macron, the French president now in his second consecutive term at the Elysée.
Emmanuel Macron in recent years has become the symbol of the new political course in Europe, more detached from traditional parties in favor of a personalism that is now rampant in our country as well.
After winning the 2017 French presidential elections, beating the right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen in the second ballot, a similar election with a similar outcome took place in 2022. However, in the latest legislative elections Macron’s Ensamble party failed to secure a parliamentary majority, with Prime Minister Elisabeth Born now leading a minority government.
In recent years, Macron initially made headlines above all for his private life, like the many attentions paid to his wife Brigitte Trogneux, to then carve out a central role in EU and international political dynamics.
There have been and there are still difficult moments in France: after the protests of the Yellow Vests and the pandemic that has also severely hit the Hexagon, now at the Elysée they have to deal with the repercussions of the war in Ukraine and the protests for the pension reform.
So let’s see how much Emmanuel Macron earns, taking a look at what the salary is received without neglecting the biography and the political history of the President of France.
Emmanuel Macron: biography
To find out who Emmanuel Macron is, let’s start from 2014, the year in which assumes the leadership of the Ministry of the Economy and look into his studies, first of all his piano endeavours at the conservatory of Amiens, his hometown, and then the Jesuit education in philosophy, his great passion.
Then the degree from Ena, the prestigious school where the French political elite is formed and the beginning of a career in the world of economics as a manager at the Ministry and then as banker for Rothschild. In 2008, Macron became a millionaire following Nestlé’s takeover of a subsidiary of giant Pfizer.
From 2006 to 2015, he was a member of the Socialist Party, before founding his own movement En Marche!, which Emmanuel Macron puts above the right and the left.
The president moved quickly and with ease from the bank to the Elysée. After his role in Rothschild, Emmanuel Macron has been deputy secretary general at the Elysée and loyal adviser to Hollande since the 2011 primaries, receiving an excellent reward from the president with the assignment in the Valls II Government of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Digital which was by Arnaud Montebourg. A role that Emmanuel Macron held from August 26, 2014 until August 30, 2016, when he resigned, unofficially anticipating his now obvious candidacy for the Elysée race.
In the French presidential elections of 2017, he ran for the leadership of En Marche! getting 24% in the first round. In the run-off, he clearly surpassed Marine Le Pen with 66% of the votes.
This challenge was also repeated in 2022: in the first round Macron obtained 27.6% against 23.4% for Le Pen, with the president who was then reconfirmed in the ballot with 58 .5% of the vote.
Private life
Born in Amiens on December 21 1977, Emmanuel Macron, at the age of forty, became the youngest President of the French Republic. To get to know him better and understand who Emmanuel Macron is in the political environment, we need to go back to the first steps in the world of the left.
The son of a neurologist and a pediatrician, Emmanuel Macron approached politics and the left from a very young age thanks to his paternal grandmother, school director. On the left, but with liberal orientation, Macron in two years of ministry has made many enemies precisely in the gauche for having touched some strongholds such as the 35-hour limit of the working week and the wealth tax.
Who is Emmanuel Macron in private life? A man outside the box, passionate about philosophy since his youth, when he was assistant to the personalist philosopher Paul Ricoeur, and skilled pianist so much that he earned the nickname of Mozart of the Elysée.
Emmanuel Macron has been married since 2007 to Brigitte Trogneux, his former high school teacher, twenty years his senior. A relationship that began when Macron was a minor and she already had three adult children. A reserved and silent wife who knows how important her role is next to a prominent political personality and potentially one of the most important in the world.
In the past, Russian dossiers have aimed to undermine what so far seems to be the candidate’s only uncovered point, precisely his private life. Russian broadcasters spoke of an extramarital affair with journalist Mathieu Gallet, president of Radio France, all categorically denied by the interested parties, so much so that Macron did not seem in the least affected by the allegations.
Salary
For his role as President of France, Emmanuel Macron receives a gross salary of 181,680 euros.
Until a few years ago the salary of the French President was higher, but in May 2012 the former tenant of the Elysée, the socialist Francois Hollande approved a 30% cut to the earnings of the entire Government team.
Macron’s monthly salary is now 14,900 euros gross while until 2012 the President of France received 21,300 euros a month after the increase that had previously been decided by Nicolas Sarkozy.
In December 2019, Emmanuel Macron finally announced his intention to give up the life pension that he will be entitled to once his term ends, thus refusing a check for 5,200 euros net per month.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2023-03-28 15:12:00. Original title: Quanto guadagna Emmanuel Macron? Biografia e stipendio del presidente francese
