There was a tremendous amount of apathy in France during the election. A sense that representative democracy just isn't quite working for them. There's a sense, i think, among those who lupen, she calls them the forgotten. It's a sort of feeling that the politics don't represent ordinary people as they used to. And i think that has put people off from voting and taking part.
Emmanuel Macron’s re-election is historic and, for many, a relief. But, as we discuss in the final instalment of our French-election series, the campaign revealed divisions that will trouble his second term, and that he must now try to heal. A staggering flow of foreign weaponry has been a significant factor in Ukraine’s resistance; we examine the geopolitical implications of all that hardware. And the pricey phenomenon of Britain’s personalised licence plates.
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