Opinion by James McAuley: Four unsettling takeaways from the French election’s first round results
in 1958 and the election of Macron in 2017 — Les Républicains, the center-right party that derives from the template of Charles de Gaulle, and the Socialists, who advanced much of the French welfare state’s programs — have both faded from view.
, the candidate for Les Républicains, announced a crowd-funding campaign after Sunday’s results because her failure at the polls means she wouldn’t qualify for partial government reimbursement for campaigns that cleared a threshold of 5 percent of the vote . Pécresse said she was personally in debt for 5 million euros for campaign expenses. Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor of Paris and the party’s candidate for president, earned only 1.8 percent of the vote.
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