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Can Macron Redraw the Political Map?

The challenge before French President Emmanuel Macron is to forge a new social contract that protects the most vulnerable from the rapid shifts and abrupt disruptions inherent in a flexible twenty-first-century economy. If he succeeds, he will have delivered on reformists' long-held idea of “modernity.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Many commentators have described Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election as a triumph for the center right, because he received votes that otherwise would have gone to the scandal-plagued mainstream conservative candidate, François Fillon.

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