The first round of the French presidential election has been less in accordance with polls and media forecasts than these ones are trying to convince us. Voter turnout remained high. As the population reaching the voting age is growing, the real number of electors who went to vote has also increased. Regarding young people, about whom we have been continuously told they were not motivated and they did not find in the current political proposals the answer to their expectations, their number was also on the rise. Next, Marine Le Pen score is inferior to what had been forecast. She ...

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For a couple of days, the serial dramas about political scandals seem, at last, to have left the place to fundamental issues in the campaign for the presidential election which ends in less than a month. We should be happy with that. The positions taken about foreign policy and defense give a better view about the projects of the main candidates in these areas where, due to the Constitution, the head of the State is in the front line. But it is not the most important point because French people are expecting to know if the economic choices of the ...

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It is not because Marine Le Pen, in her campaign, proclaims that the State must regains its role in the economy that the issue must be a taboo. It would be a height in Colbert country where, just after the war, massive nationalizations have been decided to bring about the economy in giving to it modern public services, in the continuation of what happened in 1936 or where the same thing was decided in 1982 to make possible the restructuration and the modernization of several industrial companies which were near bankruptcy. France shouldn’t have any hang-up in that matter ...

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