On Sunday, incumbent Emmanuel Macron won against challenger Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential election. The news is good for French aid, which has been steadily increasing under Macron.
Last year, the French Parliament passed a bill — the Program and Orientation Bill on Solidarity-Based Development and the Fight Against Global Inequalities — that set a target of allocating 0.7% of the country’s gross national income to official development assistance by 2025. With Macron’s victory, this trend is likely to continue.
Preliminary figures published earlier this month by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development suggest that France’s ODA in 2021 accounted for 0.52% of its GNI.