Even If Macron Wins He Will Struggle To Realise His Vision For France And Europe Hans Kundnani
The first is the rearrangement of politics away from a rift between the left and the right, in a line between “radical” centrism and populism. The center-left Socialists and the center-right candidate Les Républicains both received less than 5% of the vote, a lower percentage than any of these parties had ever received. Both Macron and Lepen see themselves as “beyond left and right” – that is, although they both want to be seen as opposites, they actually reflect each other....