Almost immediately he realized his task was not only to modernize his country but to save the EU and a crumbling international order. Macron remains favourite to beat Le Pen in a repeat of 2017. Marine Le Pen shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron after their meeting at the Elysée palace in Paris, on Nov. In the presence of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, Emmanuel Macron gathered in July 2019 nearly 400 representatives of African diasporas to discuss the issue of reinventing the link between France and Africa. For the French president, â��The diasporas are a formidable lever because they know how to access. To understand his speech, one should read Emmanuel Toddâ��s recent Les Luttes de classes en France au XXIe siècle (2020).