to put behind her her very bad 2017 campaign, and what has shifted is french society. political parties are in disarray. the french society has cracks it has never seen before. we have had the gilets jaunes, then we ve had covid, now we have the ukraine war, so, what you have today is a very tough political landscape for both candidates. we saw in the first round the traditional parties of the left and the right, the socialists and the republicans, annhilated i mean, an abysmal result. has that traditional left right split gone now? well, party wise, yes. as you say, they were all but written off. the socialist party, who has actually given us our last president before emmanuel macron, did 1.7%. that is dismal. and the conservative party are now under 6%.
then we ve had covid, now we have the ukraine war, so, what you have today is a very tough political landscape for both candidates. we saw in the first round the traditional parties of the left and the right, the socialists and the republicans, annhilated i mean, an abysmal result. has that traditional left right split gone now? well, party wise, yes. as you say, they were all but written off. the socialist party, who has actually given us our last president before emmanuel macron, did i.7%. that is dismal. and the conservative party are now under 6%. they re all but written off nationally, but politically, you still have politics from the right and politics from the left, and, actually, french voters still relate to that, and it s still a very strong marker for them. this is marine le pen s third attempt at the presidency. how successfully has she managed to soften her image,
so, what you have today is a very tough political landscape for both candidates. we saw in the first round the traditional parties of the left and the right, the socialists and the republicans, annhilated i mean, an abysmal result. has that traditional left right split gone now? well, party wise, yes. as you say, they were all but written off. the socialist party, who has actually given us our last president before emmanuel macron, did i.7%. that is dismal. and the conservative party are now under 6%. they re all but written off nationally, but politically, you still have politics from the right and politics from the left, and, actually, french voters still relate to that, and it s still a very strong marker for them. this is marine le pen s third attempt at the presidency. how successfully has she managed to soften her image, would you say? well, it s quite the feat.