France Votes This Sunday In Runoff Election Pitting Macron v. The Far Right.
Macron is up for a run off election v. the far right candidate who Le Pen this Sunday. (AP News)
“From attacks on “wokeism” to crackdowns on mosques, France’s presidential campaign has been especially challenging for voters of immigrant heritage and religious minorities, as discourse painting them as “the other” has gained ground across a swath of French society.
French voters head to polls on Sunday in a runoff vote between centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and nationalist rival Marine Le Pen, wrapping up a campaign that experts have seen as unusually dominated by discriminatory discourse and proposals targeting immigration and Islam.”
France finds itself in a in a similar position America did several years ago when Donald Trump was chosen as the person to lead the nation. Le Pen provides a stark contrast to the worldly and erudite Macron who has led France through the pandemic. Le Pen on the the other hand promises to do things like form an alliance with Putin if she wins the election and so the French must thing long an hard what direction they want to see their nation take for the next several years.
