French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron are seen July 7 mizuno running shoes clearance , 2017 at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Macron, and US First Lady Melania Trump (R) wave after a boat tour July 13, 2017 on the Seine River in Paris, France.
French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to backpedal on the issue of creating an official First Lady position for his wife amid attacks from left-wing opponents and a petition against the move mizuno running shoes , officials and reports said.

The newly elected 39-year-old president promised in March on the campaign trail to create a “a real status” for his wife Brigitte, who is his former school teacher.

The issue has become a new political headache for Macron after an online petition against creating the role garnered more than 200,000 signatures and a poll showed a majority of French people were also opposed.

The presidency will clarify Brigitte Macron’s position in the coming days, a source told AFP late on Monday, adding that there would be no change to the constitution to create a new First Lady position.

Instead, the presidency will clarify Brigitte Macron’s resources and make public the cost to the public purse For Sale Women's Asics Gel Kayano 23 Pink , the source and the BFM news channel said.

The new status would have seen France copy the American system of having a President and First Lady roles. Neither country has ever had a female head of state.

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Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Macron, and US First Lady Melania Trump (R) wave after a boat tour July 13, 2017 on the Seine River in Paris, France.

The wife of the French president has historically always played a public role at official functions and has a small security and secretarial staff. But she has no formal job title, like the partners of the British prime minister or German chancellor.

“Brigitte Macron plays a role Women's Asics Gel Kayano 23 Black Cheap , has responsibilities,” government spokesman Christophe Castaner wrote on Twitter. “We want transparency and to make clear the resources at her disposal.”

The focus on the First Lady proposition comes at a bad time for Macron as polls show his popularity slipping badly only three months after the young centrist clinched a sensational victory in May.

One poll published last week showed just 36 percent of respondents held a positive view of him.

Parliament is also preparing to vote for a new ethics law on Wednesday which will prevent MPs from employing their partners or family members as assistants after a series of scandals.

Macron has always made clear that Brigitte would not be paid in the proposed role as First Lady.

“Paid by the Republic, no. Having a role, a real status, a real capacity to act, yes Discount Men's Asics Gel Quantum 360 Deep Blue ,” Macron said in March when asked about his vision for the future position on RTL radio.

Brigitte would “have the role that she’s always had. That’s to say that she is at my side because it balances me. We’ve always worked like that,” he added.

“She will have a role, she won’t be hidden because she’s part of my life,” he explained.

Brigitte Macron, who is 25 years older than her husband at age 64, married her former pupil after they fell in love while writing a play together at school.

Reports say she is preparing to take an active role supporting mental health and handicap charities.

Soccer's world governing body FIFA has cleared 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar of corruption and ruled out a revote to decide the host of the competition despite widespread allegations of wrongdoing.

An exhaustive report by the ethics committee of FIFA -admitted that even though there had been a series of worrying episodes in the bidding for the tournament Men's Asics Gel Quantum 360 CM Black Sliver Sale , as well as the 2018 World Cup in Russia, there was not enough evidence to justify reopening the process.

"The report identified certain occurrences that were suited to impair the integrity of the 20182022 World Cups bidding process," said the 42-page report released Thursday by Hans Joachim Eckert, the chairman of the committee's adjudicatory chamber.

"While the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber fully concurs with the relevant findings, the occurrences at issue were, in the chairman's assessment ASICS Gel Kayano Trainer Knit Red Black Cheap , only of very limited scope.

"In particular, the effects of these occurrences on the bidding process as a whole were far from reaching any threshold that would require returning to the bidding process, let alone reopening it.

"The assessment of the 20182022 FIFA World Cups bidding process is therefore closed for the FIFA ethics committee."

However, the committee did recommend a series of reforms to future bidding processes in an effort to protect the integrity of the sport's most lucrative showpiece event.

These include four-year limits on FIFA executive committee posts, the FIFA Congress, rather than the executive committee ASICS Gel Kayano Trainer Knit Black Sale , to decide on future venues, a more transparent rotation system and a ban on committee members visiting bidding nations.

In a break with FIFA tradition, the 2018 and 2022 tournaments were awarded at the same time, in 2010, leading to claims of horsetrading in the bidding process.

As concerns grew, FIFA -appointed Michael Garcia ASICS Gel Kayano Trainer Knit White Online , a former US federal prosecutor, to head up the inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

However, Garcia plans to -appeal against the FIFA report, he said Thursday.

"Today's decision by the Chairman of the Adjudicatory Chamber contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions detailed in the Investigatory Chamber's report," Garcia said in a statement.

"I intend to appeal this decision to the FIFA Appeal Committee."

Garcia's 350-page report was handed to FIFA on September 5.

It summed up a yearlong -investigation that involved interviewing more than 75 -witnesses and compiling a dossier with more than 200,000 pages and audio interviews.

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