Scientists cheer defeat of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, but say that the President Emmanuel Macron’s plans for research are vague.
French scientists have been buoyed by President Emmanuel Macron’s convincing victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the national presidential election on 24 April. Researchers were fearful that the anti-immigration and anti-European Union policies of Le Pen’s National Rally party would have damaged research and international collaboration.
Lemaire is particularly worried about Macron’s lack of precision in his plans for science. “During his face-to-face debate with Le Pen, Macron gave a slew of figures on many issues, but his programme for science remains very vague,” he adds. “For him, improving the attractiveness of academic careers only means increasing pay. He never addresses the shortage of tenured academic positions at universities and research organizations, which is a major frustration for aspiring young scientists.
A Le Pen victory “would have been extremely dangerous for democracy”, says Cédric Villani, a 2010 winner of the Fields Medal in mathematics and an independent parliamentarian who is outgoing president of a joint parliamentary science and technology committee.
Science was barely mentioned during the election campaign. But the topic of ecology received attention in a speech by Macron in Marseilles on 16 April, in which he pledged to make the Prime Minister responsible for ecological planning, assisted by a minister for energy and a minister for territorial ecology issues.
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