The 2022 presidential election will it only be a rehash of that of 2017? Not quite. If the players in the second round are the same, the balance of power has changed: the bottom of the air is fresh if not bad.
At the end of a long democratic exhaustion, France is more than ever tempted by extreme dextrism, from the Latin dextra (translate: “on the right”), mixed with the populo-populism of the radical left. Please, spare us the good feelings, the moralizing peeps, the stupid couplets on “the darkest hours of our history”the quavering calls to “Republican Front”. On paper, everything is fine, Emmanuel Macron has already won. Until further notice…
The president certainly has the vista, and what a vista! But he governed France, alone o…
Illustration: dusault for “the point”
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