Those who watched the uk vote for brexit and the us vote for trump. and are asking themselves what is the solution for france? this election will hang on those who don t like either emmanuel macron or marine le pen. and what they will do next is harder to predict. the unwritten rule that everyone in france comes together to block the far right seems to be fraying and the two visions france has chosen for president show how divided this nation is. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. earlier i spoke to anne elisabeth moutet, a paris based french journalist and columnist for the daily telegraph newspaper. i asked her what she made of the result. one name that was not mentioned in your piece and, indeed, in most coverages the name of the third also ran, that isjohn mcmanus on, the hard left leader, who was bowling almost
And what they ll do next is harder to predict. the unwritten rule that everyone in france comes together to block the far right seems to be fraying and the two visions france has chosen for president show how divided this nation is. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. earlier, i spoke to keteevan gorjestani, france 24 s washington correspondent, about how the election is unfolding. well, there is a sense that emmanuel macron is going to have to do actually start campaigning. there s a feeling in france that the president sort of was focused on the russia ukraine crisis and it helped him in the beginning, because he was seen as a statesman, but then he sort of stayed on that statesman level and didn t really focus on the domestic campaign, if you will, while marine le pen actually did focus on that. the question is, how are they going to try and address these two elements?
For france? this election will hang on those who don t like either emmanuel macron or marine le pen. and what they ll do next is harder to predict. the unwritten rule that everyone in france comes together to block the far right seems to be fraying and the two visions france has chosen for president show how divided this nation is. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. earlier, i spoke to france 2a, washington correspondent about how the election is unfolding. well, there is a sense that emmanuel macron is going to have to do actually start campaigning. there s a feeling in france that the president sort of was focused on the russia ukraine crisis and it helped him in the beginning, because he was seen as a statesman, but then he sort of stayed on that statesman level and didn t really focus on the domestic campaign, if you will, while marine le pen actually did focus on that.
Seems to be fraying and the two visions france has chosen for president show how divided this nation is. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. we rejoined now from washington, dc by france 2a washington correspondent kethevane gorjestani. thank you so much forjoining us on the programme. as we have been hearing in lucy s report, is really signifies the rise of populism, the decline of socialism and republicanism, but also if we look at the campaign we can see that le pen has had a slick campaign. many are concluding that, whereas emmanuel macron, with a late start do he is. how do you think both will change their tactics? what should we look over out for of the next two weeks was yellow well, there is a sense that emanuel mack on is going to have to do actually
The unwritten rule that everyone in france comes together to block the far right seems to be fraying and the two visions france has chosen for president show how divided this nation is. earlier i spoke to anne elisabeth mou tay, a paris based frenchjournalist and columnist for the daily telegraph newspaper. i asked her what she made of the result. one name that was not mentioned in your piece and in most covered is the name of the third, the hired left leader whose sport an amazing 21% in the french jeremy whose sport an amazing 21% in the frenchjeremy corbyn. and because the rest of the left wing parties, they are not in sight, they hoped that he would make it to the second round and he is separated by