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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: France Lurches Right
Description: Alice Barbe, a French political and social activist, shares her concerns and expectations for the second round and beyond.
Much to everyone’s surprise, France’s President Macron recently decided that—like much of the rest of the world—his country ought to have national elections this year. The outcome of the first of two rounds was devastating for his political project to govern from the center: Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally party won a bit more than 33% of the vote. A coalition of leftist parties, the New Popular Front, won 28%. And Macron's Centers party again came in third...