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Between-two-rounds: what echoes of the foreign press?
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The poster for the second round of the French presidential election between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen seen by the foreign press.
AFP
By: Romain Auzouy
The French presidential election is followed closely by foreign press correspondents.
All the lessons of the first round have been learned.
“
If François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac were still alive, they wouldn't come back
,” writes the Catalan newspaper
La Vanguardia
about the very low scores of the traditional parties.
"
France is a crucible of populism
," says the
Daily Telegraph.
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How does the foreign press perceive the poster for the second round between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen?
Which French specificities and which parallels with other situations in Europe?
To discuss:
- Ana Navarro Pedro,
Paris correspondent for the Portuguese weekly
VISÃO
- Anne-Elisabeth Moutet,
columnist at the
Daily Telegraph
- Paolo Levi,
correspondent in Paris for the Italian press agency Ansa
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