Well done Emmanuel Macron, but now we’ll oppose you

Yanis Varoufakis supported Emmanuel Macron in his battle with Marine Le Pen, but is determined to see the French president turn his back on his failed neoliberalist policies

PRIOR to the second round of the French presidential election, DiEM25 (the pan-European movement of democrats, mostly of the left, that I helped to found) promised Emmanuel Macron that we would “mobilise fully to help” him defeat Marine Le Pen.

This we did — incurring the wrath of many on the left — because maintaining “an equal distance between Macron and Le Pen,” we believed, was “inexcusable”.