The reelection of French President Emmanuel Macron could bolster universities at the expense of national research organizations.
In a repeat of 2017, centrist French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen are the leading contenders in presidential elections on 10 April. Academics, who are generally left leaning, dislike Le Pen for her anti-immigration and isolationist views. But many scientists are also uneasy with Macron, because a second term would let him pursue controversial efforts to strengthen universities at the expense of national research organizations like CNRS and INSERM.
The latest opinion polls put Macron at 27% of the vote, versus 21% for Le Pen. Farleft candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is polling at 15%. If no one wins an absolute majority on 10 April, the two leaders would face each other in a runoff 2 weeks later. The traditional parties are lagging behind, as in 2017. Conservative candidate Valérie Pécresse, a former research minister, is polling at about 10%, whereas socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo has struggled to get any notice.
The law also launched a battery of measures to make French science more competitive. In its first year of implementation, the law increased funding at the National Research Agency, allowing it to raise the success rate for competitive grant applications to 23%, compared with 17% in 2020. University professors and permanent researchers are now guaranteed a salary of at least €3200 per month, twice the minimum wage.
Even more controversial changes could come with Macron’s reelection. At his first press conference as a presidential candidate on 17 March, Macron declared he would “make [universities] fully fledged research performers.” This would require giving them “full autonomy and go all the way through on reforms initiated a decade ago.”
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