Europe 23:44, 27-Aug-2021
   Michel Barnier announces plans to run in 2022 French presidential
   election
   Katherine Berjikian
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   The European Union's former Brexit negotiator has announced plans to
   compete against President Emmanuel Macron in France's 2022 presidential
   elections – potentially running as a right-wing candidate for the
   Republicans.

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   However, Barnier's run for president is not guaranteed, as the
   mainstream center-left and center-right parties have not announced
   their candidates for the first round of elections on April 10.
   Barnier's Republicans party will wait until September 25 to choose its
   candidate for the presidential run.
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   throw their hats into the ring. Former minister Xavier Bertrand, who
   leads the north-eastern Hauts-de-France region, said that he will also
   bid to run in the election.

   Anne Hidalgo, the socialist mayor of Paris, has hinted that she would