What is happening to the French right? | France Elects
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In just over six weeks, voters in France will go to the polls in the first round of the 2022 presidential election, in which President Emmanuel Macron\\u2019s toughest competition for re-election comes from the right. This week, the New Statesman\\u2019s Europe correspondent, Ido Vock, examines the state of the French right wing.
He, along with special guests Agn\\xe8s Poirier, a journalist and the author of Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, and Catherine Fieschi, the director of Counterpoint, looks at the likely battle for second place between the Republican candidate Val\\xe9rie P\\xe9cresse and her rivals on the far right, Marine Le Pen and \\xc9ric Zemmour.
Is Macron\\u2019s domination of the political centre forcing his rivals to take more extreme positions?
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Further Reading
Hoping to stave off war in Ukraine, Macron goes to Moscow
\\xc9ric Zemmour and the French far right\\u2019s gender gap
Emmanuel Macron doesn\\u2019t plan to let the right monopolise anti-immigration sentiment
Could Val\\xe9rie P\\xe9cresse be France\\u2019s first female president?
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