Presidential campaign: always more to the right?

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French President Emmanuel Macron at Fort Brégançon, end of December 2021. AFP - NICOLAS TUCAT

By: Romain Auzouy

Less than three months before the first round of the presidential election in France, the tone is set.

Violence during Éric Zemmour's first meeting, little controversial phrases, the most striking recently that of President Emmanuel Macron who claimed to have "very much wanted to annoy" those who had not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Why such a climate?

How to explain the success of the right and the extreme right in the polls?

What parallels with other European countries?

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With : 

- Victor Delage

, head of studies at the 

and author of the note "The conversion of Europeans to right-wing values" (May 2021)

- Enric Bonet,

journalist, political correspondent for the Spanish daily 

- Jon Henley

, journalist, Europe correspondent for the British daily 

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