Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidential election and much of the world - and around 58 per cent of France at least – can breathe a sigh of relief. Read more: france frenchelection lepen Macron
Emmanuel Macron has been returned and much of the world - and around 58 per cent of France at least – can breathe a sigh of relief.
French President and centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron greets well-wishers after casting his vote in Le Touquet, northern France, Sunday.But the real danger for mainstream politics is that the perception that Macron is arrogant – and it is widespread - is reinforced rather than tempered by his re-election, which is remarkably the first by an incumbent in 20 years.
Since her trouncing in 2017, Le Pen added disenfranchised blue-collar workers and young families struggling to keep their heads above water to her hard-core far-right base. He is also viewed to have reduced corruption through his “moralisation of politics” law where, among other things, he stopped politicians hiring relatives or spending cash handouts as they chose.
His team was shaken by bad polls just a few weeks ago when he had only bothered to hold one election rally, instead telling voters he was preoccupied with Ukraine. And while appearing at COP26 and a series of major summits as a climate warrior, successive assessments have shown that France isn’t reducing greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet its objectives under the Paris climate agreement.
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