Le Penova je zgolj sindrom francoske bolezni, ki se je okrepila z evrom in pasifikacijo domačih ekonomskih politik. In Le Penova ima v bistvu prav: po teh volitvah bo Franciji vladala ženska, če ne Le Penova, bo to še naprej Angela Merkel.
Tudi če Macron tokrat zmaga, kar nedvomno bo, problemi Francije ne bodo niti za milimeter bližje rešitvi. In tudi metamorfoza retorike Le Penove iz skrajnega desničarskega populizma v keynesianizem ničesar ne pomeni, saj je Le Penova napačen in nekredibilen prinašalec pravih novic. Dober komentar Marka Weisbrota.
As France heads into the second and final round of its presidential election on Sunday, a number of observers have compared the choice between the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist neoliberal Emmanuel Macron with the Trump-Clinton contest of 2016. There are similarities: Le Pen, who is politely called xenophobic, like Trump represents an anti-immigrant, right-wing nationalism combined with some populist appeals. Macron is a former investment banker and economy minister under the current Socialist government who, like Hillary, is widely seen as too close to powerful financial interests.
But one significant difference is that if Hillary had won the US presidency in 2016, she would most likely have tried to win some net improvements in the living standards and economic security of the majority of the electorate — including working class and poor people — who voted for her. The same cannot be said for Macron in France. His public platform has been vague, but insofar as it has a discernible trend, it is in the same direction that the country has moved over most of the past decade. That has included large public pension cuts, labor law reform that has weakened the bargaining power of unions and made it easier for employers to dismiss workers (including the Macron Law, as it is called, of 2015), and spending cuts.
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