Most significant positive evidence
The assessment records employment growth, economic and investment reforms, sustained European cooperation, climate investment and an active international development programme.
Person
Emmanuel Macron
President of France. The assessment covers employment and economic reform, European and climate leadership, development cooperation, pension reform, use of constitutional executive procedures and police conduct during mass demonstrations.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+11.77
Reasoned summary
Macron's record contains material economic, European and climate benefits. These are substantially reduced by centralised executive government, contested social reform and failures to protect assembly and expression during demonstrations.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The strongest negative evidence concerns coercive policing during demonstrations, the handling of pension reform through Article 49.3 and insufficient accountability for unlawful force against protesters and journalists.
Read the full Emmanuel Macron ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +30.00
- Rights and dignity
- -30.30
- Nonviolence and harm
- +20.00
- Stewardship of power
- +10.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +27.57
- Consequential legacy
- +13.33
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Emmanuel Macron (2017–2026)
2017–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile