French President Emmanuel Macron has left behind one of the last hurdles in his re-election race with his militant appearance in the nearly three-hour televised battle with his far-right rival Marine Le Pen, convincing according to a poll that most of those who watched the show he looked arrogant again. Although Ms. Lepen appeared to […]
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Elabe / BFMTV poll: Macron more convincing than Le Pen in telematch
Center Liberal President Emanuel Macron has been deemed more convincing, but also more arrogant, than his far-right rival Marine Le Pen in their televised campaign last night, ahead of Sunday’s run-off presidential election in France. The Elabe Institute’s instant poll for the BFMTV television station on a representative sample of 650 viewers aged 18 and […]
France: Tonight the Macron-Le Pen debate – The 4 issues that will dominate
France’s far-right presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, will be short of points in tonight’s televised battle against France’s central president Emanuel Macron. Here are some issues that are expected to dominate in tonight’s telematch between the two presidential candidates, which is to start at 22:00 Greek time. The Macron style Macron has struggled during his […]
France: Macron increases his lead over Le Pen
Five days before the second round of the French presidential election, the current president Emanuel Macron seems to be widening his gap with Marin Le Pen, according to three new polls that give him an even higher percentage than the one he collected before the first round. In particular, according to an Ipsos poll, Macron […]
Anxiety about the Macron-Lepen duel
Tomorrow’s confrontation between the two candidates for the Macron-Lepen presidency is expected with great interest. They use as many weapons as they can. Anxiety, passion and insecurity have reached the zenith in France in view of tomorrow’s Macron-Le Pen duel that many French people treat as a “derby”. A serious confrontation between two different philosophies […]
France: Castex says presidential election outcome unclear
French Prime Minister Jean-Castex said today that there were no guarantees that Emanuel Macron would win the second round of the April 24 presidential election against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. “The game is not over,” Castex told France Inter radio station. “You put Emanuel Macron and Marin Le Pen on the same level. But […]
France of the three populisms
By Costas Raptis The first round of the French presidential election brought greater clarity and stability to the country’s political landscape. This is the seemingly paradoxical conclusion of the French anthropologist and demographer Emmanuel Todd, known for his observations on the social “deep structure” and the historical long scale, which allowed him e.g. to predict […]
France: Le Pen’s party’s accusation of embezzlement of EU funds
French prosecutors said Sunday they were considering a report by the European Union’s anti-fraud service accusing far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and members of her party of embezzling EU funds, according to Reuters. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that it was studying a report it received from the EU anti-fraud agency OLAF on 11 […]
France poll: 30% of left-wing Melanson voters will vote for Macron
France enters the final stretch for the election, on April 24, of the President of the Republic for the next five years, with Emanuel Macron appearing in all the “Ganian” polls. Many will certainly be judged by the televised duel of the two candidates next Wednesday, which is expected to be watched by more than […]
France: Battle for two with a prize at the Palais des Elysées
By Costas Raptis Emanuel Macron is running. This is how the French newspaper Libeation portrayed him on its front page, which caused a sensation, with its characteristic headline “My love, I forgot the Left!”. This is what the matches in two rounds have, as the loser of the first one emerges as the regulator of […]
