Emmanuel Macron
Also Macron
President of France since 14 May 2017, born in 1977. He cannot run in 2027 because of the two-term limit.
Macron was born on December 21, 1977, in Amiens, and took office as president on May 14, 2017.
On October 21 in Doha, Qatar, he criticized the AI-generated images circulating online after the riots and said there was no sign of foreign interference in the violence itself. On jeuxvideo.com, the remarks were misread as "the riots are AI."
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- Emmanuel Macron (Wikipedia (French), accessed 2026-10-22)
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President Emmanuel Macron called for the government's "total mobilisation" on supply and prices, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu extended subsidies for fishermen, builders and farmers to the end of the year.
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Clubic reported that what Macron said in Doha that day was that "what happened in the streets" must be distinguished from "the narrative online afterwards"; he was criticising AI-generated fake images circulating after t…
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