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Looking forward to the 2022 presidential election, none of the traditional parties has so far come up with compelling candidates, meaning Macron will likely face Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right anti-immigration National Rally party, in the runoff. The germ of the controversy goes back to the 1950s and '60s, when French industry encouraged the influx of North African "guest workers" (mostly from nations that France had colonized) as a source of cheap labor during the postwar rebuilding effort. Even as Le Pen benefits from Macron's miasma, she is gaining support as a champion of republican values in the face of what many see as an overreaching social justice movement. [Extracted from the article] |
