Macron, Le Pen and France's long battle between order and dissent

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : The discriminatory and xenophobic principle of "national preference" (relabelled "national priority"), which seeks to exclude access to jobs, housing and welfare services to non-French natives, is still at the heart of Le Pen's presidential programme, and she has vowed to implement it even if it means amending the French constitution and taking on French and European judicial institutions.
44% : Macron and Le Maire proceeded to steer the French economy along a neoliberal path, cutting taxes for employers, reforming the labour code to make it easier to lay off workers and slashing the wealth tax.
40% : Le Pen did the rest by rebranding her party, focusing on material rather than cultural issues in her 2022 campaign, softening her personal image and abandoning some of her more outlandish policies (such as leaving the European Union).

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