Mon Apr 11, 2022 – 2:35 pm EDT ANALYSIS
(LifeSiteNews) – Following two years of cruel and abusive COVID policies and despite an unprecedented increase of France’s public debt, public discontent over inflation and the cost of energy, and a scandal surrounding his use of McKinsey and Co to guide important portions of public policy, outgoing president Emmanuel Macron obtained the highest number of votes in the first round of the presidential election that took place on Sunday. With exactly 27.85 percent of the votes cast, he will face the so-called “extreme right” candidate Marine Le Pen – who obtained 23.15 percent – at the run-off in two weeks, on April 24.
This is the second time Macron and Le Pen will be competing for the second round. This time, they headed a field of 12 candidates.
Marine Le Pen, though far from ideal, favors national sovereignty over globalism: she wants to pull France out of the integrated NATO command, hold a referendum on immigration, favor “economic patriotism,” suppress wealth tax on real estate and shift it to speculative wealth that has been highly favored by Macron during his five-year term. Le Pen also wants to set up
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