David Dunn of the University of Birmingham speaks with Monocle 24’s The Globalist about Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French Presidential election — is this a big win for “moderate politics” pushing back the hard-right “populism” that has come to the fore in the US and the UK?
I think increasingly Brexit and the Trump victory are looking like aberrations, aberrations for very particular circumstances….What we are seeing now is that people have recognized the dangers and have come up with strategies where the whole French political system stepped aside to let this new, vibrant candidate — with a vision and rhetoric which appealed to that sense of change — come forward.
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Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte Trogneux celebrate victory in Sunday’s French Presidential election
