Special envoy to Guyana
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A very Sunday calm reigns in the center of Cayenne, on the eve of the arrival of Emmanuel Macron.
The Head of State begins a one and a half day trip there this Monday.
His last and only visit dates back to October 2017, when Guyana was emerging from a major general strike.
At the time, Emmanuel Macron, just elected to the Élysée, had promised to open “
a new page
” with the overseas territories, while explaining that he was not “
Santa Claus
”.
Comments moderately appreciated on site, where the president is not popular.
In 2022, Marine Le Pen came well ahead of the second round of the presidential election (60%) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon gathered more than half of the votes in the first, with Emmanuel Macron only coming third, in a context of strong abstention.
With its nearly 300,000 inhabitants (ten times more than in the 1950s), a large third of whom are foreigners, Guyana is the poorest territory in France, if we except Mayotte...
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