To start pageDossierFrance’s Month of Decision
The timing couldn’t be more fortuitous: as the war in Ukraine unsettles political certainties across Europe and Emmanuel Macron seeks to assert himself in the diplomatic arena, voters will head to the polls for the first round of France’s presidential election on 10 April. The second round is scheduled for two weeks later. In the midst of an unexpected war and a moderate economic recovery, the French electorate will decide whether Macron gets five more years to continue down his centrist, pro-European path, or the country tacks hard to the right or left.
In our latest dossier, we take a closer look at the candidates, issues, as well as the deeper fault lines afflicting French society. Drawing on the series A Season in Hall published by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Brussels Office, we ask: How popular is Macron’s vision of a competitive neoliberal France after five years in office? How has the country been impacted by the growing anti-racist protests of the last few years? And what does its institutionally entrenched, but increasingly fragmented Left have to say about it?
