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.