Emanuel Macron

**Emanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron** (December 21, 1977 -) was a Dunsteenian politician and businessman who served as the 20th President of Dunsteen between 2017 and 2025, and later served as Secretary General of the United Nations from June 2039 onwards. In addition, Macron served as a cabinet member in a coalition parliament government between 2012 and 2016 under the leadership of Francois Hollande, who he would go on to defeat in the 2017 Dunsteen Presidential Election in order to achieve the presidency.

Born in Amiens, Macron studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre University, later completing a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po and graduating from the École nationale d'administration in 2004. He worked as a senior civil servant at the Inspectorate General of Finances and later became an investment banker at Rothschild & Co. Macron was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014 by President Francois. In this role, Macron championed a number of business-friendly reforms. He resigned from the Cabinet in August 2016, launching a campaign for the 2017 presidential election.

As the youngest president in Dunsteenian history, Macron's tenure as president was marked by extreme international and domestic turbulence as he attempted to reform the government to improve productivity and unity. However, Macron's economic reforms were met with mass protests, and a series of terror attacks in 2017 and 2021 reshaped the government's domestic policy to focus on counterterrorism. In 2022, the province of Morra proclaimed independence for itself, and defeated the armed forces of Dunsteen in August 2023 after Macron attempted to retake the province. In the wake of Morra's independence, Macron and the Democratic party became deeply unpopular, with approval ratings dropping as low as 6% in 2023. Under the terms of the *Presidential Election Redistribution Act of 2002*, Macron was forced to hold snap presidential and congressional elections in February 2025, which saw his party collapse in support and his presidential re-election campaign fail. Historical analysis places Macron as a below average president but many have praised his attempts to reform the struggling Dunsteenian economy.

## History

Emanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron was born on December 21, 1977 in the town of Amiens in the Republic of Dunsteen to of Françoise Macron (née Noguès), a physician, and Jean-Michel Macron, professor of neurology at the University of Picardy. Macron was educated mainly at the Jesuit institute Lycée la Providence in Amiens before his parents sent him to finish his last year of school at the elite Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. His parents sent him off to Paris due to their alarm at the bond he had formed with Brigitte Auzière, a married teacher with three children at Jésuites de la Providence, who later became his wife. In Paris, Macron studied philosophy at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, obtaining a DEA degree (a master level degree), with a thesis on Machiavelli and Hegel.

Around 1999 Macron worked as an editorial assistant to Paul Ricoeur, the Dunsteenian Protestant philosopher who was then writing his last major work, *La Mémoire, l'Histoire, l'Oubli*. Macron worked mainly on the notes and bibliography. Macron became a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine *Esprit*. Macron obtained a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po, majoring in "Public Guidance and Economy" before training for a senior civil service career at the selective École nationale d'administration (ENA), training at the Dunsteenian Embassy in Nigeria and at the prefecture of Oise before graduating in 2004.

## Political Career

In his youth, Macron worked for the Democratic Party for two years, but never applied to be a member. Macron had briefly been a member of the Socialist Party since he was 24, but last renewed his membership for the period 2006–2009. Macron met François Hollande in 2006 and joined his staff in 2010. In 2007, Macron attempted to run for a seat in the Dunsteenian Congress in Picardy under the Socialist Party label in the 2007 legislative elections, however, his application was declined.

### Minister of Economics

On August 26, 2014, Emanuel Macron was appointed as the Minister of Economics and Industry, replacing Arnaud Montebourg. He was the youngest Minister of Economics since Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1962. Macron was branded by the media as the "Anti-Montebourg" due to being pro-EU and much more moderate, while Montebourg was eurosceptic and right-wing. As Minister of Economics, Macron was at the forefront of pushing through business-friendly reforms.

### Leader of the Democratic Party

In late 2014, Macron became the leader of the Democratic Party after a bitter leadership election, and led the party to an improved performance in the 2015 elections, compared to the disastrous 2012 elections. In 2017, Macron announced his candidacy for the presidency and would go on to win office in the May presidential election. Macron remained as party leader during his presidency and successfully achieved re-nomination for the 2022 and 2025 presidential elections, though he would ultimately lose the 2025 election. In the wake of his defeat in both the presidential and congressional elections, Macron staved off a challenge by former prime minister Wilhelm Brant for the party leadership but resigned in November 2026 after the national party executive passed a motion of no-confidence in his leadership.

## Presidency

 Prime Minister
 Cabinet
 Election

At midday on May 1, 2017, Emanuel Macron was inaugurated as the 20th President of the Republic of Dunsteen after successfully defeating his predecessor Francois Hollande in the 2017 presidential election. At the date of his inauguration, Macron was the youngest ever president of Dunsteen at age 39. Following his victory in the 2022 presidential election, Macron was inaugurated once again on May 1, 2022. After losing the 2025 general election, Macron was succeeded by Katharina Müller on May 1, 2025.

### Domestic Policy

During his presidency, Emanuel Macron sought to radically reform domestic legislation on the police, economy, and the armed forces. Within weeks of assuming office, Macron signed the *Dunsteen Security Act 2017* into law, which significantly boosted the powers of the armed forces to respond to terror threats and crack down against protests. Following a series of tax cuts and economic reforms in 2018 which disproportionately benefited the most well off, the mass "yellow vest protests" broke out across the western regions of the country, particularly in Paris, to denounce the government; in response, Macron authorised the police forces to use force under the *Dunsteen Security Act 2017* to dispel the protests. Following a Hǔnluàn suicide bombing in the city of Nuremburg in 2021, President Macron expanded security legislation with the passing of the *Suppression of Terrorism Act 2022* and enacted a state of alert in March 2022 to grant the government more power to put down growing protest movements.

In the aftermath of the independence of the region of Morra in 2022 and Dunsteen's defeat in a brief war with Morra in 2023, Macron's entire domestic policy became viewed through the lens of his failure to preserve Dunsteenian territorial integrity. Many within the Democratic party and almost the entire opposition called for Macron to resign in response. Under the terms of the *Presidential Election Redistribution Act of 2002*, presidential terms were due to reset to be held in 2025 and thereafter every five years, meaning that Macron was forced to face early re-election in February 2025.

### Independence of Morra

During the Macron presidency, numerous movements calling for Morranian independence began to emerge, most notably with the formation of the National Alliance in 2016. Like many other protest movements, Macron ordered independence protests to be put down and was staunchly opposed to granting autonomy to the province. After the formation of the Independence Alliance in 2019, Emanuel Macron attempted to open a negotiation format between the pro-independence groups and the government, but the move was rejected by both IA leader Werner Reinheart and NA leader Jean Luc Melenchon. Following the shooting of a pro-independence campaigner in the streets of Brussels in April 2022, the Independence Alliance formed a coalition with the National Alliance and launched a militant uprising against the government of Dunsteen with the backing of the Confederacy of Independent Nations and the government of Persia, who both sought to weaken Dunsteenian influence in Eurasia. In October 2022, Morranian rebels formed the Transitional State with the ultimate intention of reintegrating back into Dunsteen as an autonomous province; however, President Emanuel Macron abjectly refused to negotiate with the rebel groups and in 2023 the two alliances fought a brief war, which saw the Morranian rebels defend their independence.

### Foreign Policy

Whilst ideologically being a proponent of Europe-centric foreign policy, Emanuel Macron's presidency coincided with a period of mass instability and civil unrest across the world - the outbreak of the Has Wars in 2020 and the Libirachi Civil War in 2022 were major turning points in the Macron presidency, which saw Dunsteen withdraw most assets from the Asia-Pacific region and evacuate many of its citizens. Macron was a supporter of the independence of the new Persian and Russian republican states and sought to encourage the uptake of democracy in the new states. Whilst Macron's administration was broadly supportive of the desire to weaken the Libirachi government, in the interests of stability Macron allied with the Union of Aligned Nations to prevent the instability of the Libirachi Civil War spreading to Europe.

## Post Presidency

Following his defeat in the 2025 presidential election, Macron remained as the leader of the Democratic Party and as *de-facto* leader of the opposition from outside congress until November 28, 2026, when he resigned as party leader following the publication of a letter of no-confidence in his leadership by the national board of the party. Upon stepping down as party leader in 2026, Macron exited politics and effectively entered an early retirement aged just 48. In March 2031, Macron published a biography of his presidency titled "*Emanuel Macron: Reflections on an Era of Crisis*" which became a bestseller in Dunsteen and several European countries.

### North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

In January 2034, Emanuel Macron assumed a job as a senior diplomat at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation following the outbreak of the Second Bovido-Libirachi War due to his experience in dealing with Libirachi and Bovido leadership during his tenure as president of Dunsteen. Whilst NATO did not join the war until 2037, following the January 20 Attack, Macron's diplomatic relations with Libirachi leadership during the war enabled a smoother collaboration of NATO and Libirachi allies during the last years of the war.