Emmanuel Macron decided to take a punt by calling a snap election. Now will voters do the same?
For all its insistence that it’s no longer far-right, for all reversals and reviews on issues like pension reform and support for Ukraine, the cornerstone of Marine Le Pen’s party remains identity politics and the notion of national preference, a brand unseen in France’s high halls of power since the Nazi occupation of World War Two.
We’ll ask what Le Pen stands for and her untested 28-year old standard bearer Jordan Bardella. Why him? Why not her in this race to govern? And what about the far-right’s foils?
The left’s electoral alliance includes reformist Socialists and Greens but both the National Rally and the centrists of Emmanuel Macron raise the spectre of a far-left it deems anti-semitic.
Is the French president right to tar Le Pen and the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon with the same brushstroke? Is he rampart against extremism or an enabler? First clue, in just ten days time with the first round of snap legislative elections.
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Guillaume Gougeon and Louise Guibert.
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