On April 10, France went to the polls in the first round of voting for the 2022 presidential election. The results pit incumbent Emmanuel Macron versus far right leader Marine Le Pen with the deter…
and Mélanie Thierry wrote in the opinion piece, “Without illusions, without hesitation and without trembling, we will vote for Emmanuel Macron.” Of Le Pen, they said, “We cannot imagine, at the head of France, a candidate whose program remains that of xenophobia and withdrawal, a candidate who has made an alliance with totalitarian and warmongering powers. We cannot imagine what this terrible sign would mean for Europe and for the world.
They also wrote, “Nothing in Marine Le Pen’s program brings us closer to the history of France that is resistant, humanist, generous and open to the world. Nothing links Marine Le Pen to the France of Villon, Beaumarchais, Voltaire, Hugo or Camus.”