BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 23:12:00
To his own record. and marine le pen has 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 had covid, and 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, an abysmal result. has the traditional left—right split gone out? well, party—wise, yes. as you say, ...