If he resigns, could Macron run for a third consecutive term?

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“Article 6 of the Constitution is clear: Emmanuel Macron will not be able to run again in 2027, and will have to give up his place.

Impossible, therefore, that he beats the longevity record of François Mitterrand, who with his two consecutive seven years has exercised the longest presidential term in the history of the French republics.

And yet... a rumor has been suggesting for a few days that a very specific scenario, and to date unprecedented, could allow the head of state to run for a third term if he so wishes.

And it does not come from just anyone: this hypothesis is defended very seriously by an eminent jurist in the country, the former Minister of Justice Jean-Jacques Urvoas.

The one who still teaches as a lecturer in Public Law at the University of Brest explained his reasoning during a lunch with a journalist... and on Monday, the scenario made the front page of

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The former Keeper of the Seals, who takes a close interest in political life in French Polynesia, indeed noted an opinion from the Council of State issued on October 18, which opens up the field of possibilities.

The magistrates of the Royal Palace have just authorized Édouard Fritch, the current president of French Polynesia, to stand for a third term - while the organic law of 2011, which governs the institutions of the overseas collectivity, prohibits him from exercising "

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The trick is that Édouard Fritch did not serve two five-year terms: he was first elected in 2014 following the resignation of his predecessor, then re-elected in 2018 for five years.

Can the insight of the Council of State, requested by the government and exceptionally made public at the request of the executive, be extended to the constitutional rules applying to the presidency of the Republic?

A president who has not completed two full terms (so for example, who would resign before the end of the second term) could he stand for a third time in a row?

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