Valdai Club to Discuss the Presidential Elections in France

Valdai Club Conference Hall, Tsvetnoy boulevard 16/1, Moscow, Russia

On April 25 at 13:00 Moscow time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host a panel discussion on the results of the presidential elections in France.

In the second round of the presidential elections in France on April 24, the nation will choose who will be president in the years to come. The main struggle will unfold between the current head of state Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, who represents the National Rally party.

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Elections Day in France

The “Elitist-bourgeois” and Europeanist bloc that has gathered around Emmanuel Macron is both solid AND a minority in the country. The “social-populist” bloc, in other words the combination of a vote of conviction regarding a structured social programme and a vote of exasperation structured around a populist-social discourse of real effectiveness, is in fact in the majority in France, writes Valdai Club expert Jacques Sapir.

Jacques Sapir

27.04.2022

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Macron as President of Crisis and Three Frances

On April 25, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion on the results of the presidential elections in France. Discussion moderator Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, invited the participants to discuss the victory of Emmanuel Macron.

26.04.2022

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