While the period of the U.S. elections has just come to an end, France is entering its own presidential elections campaign. Next spring the French people will elect a president for a country officially “at war” since 2015, and which has experienced a serious political crisis for almost a decade. The level of trust for political parties and institutions is at an all-time low, and the approval rate of the current president François Hollande has been below 20 percent for more than two 2 years, and reached a historical low of 4 percent in October. Marine Le Pen, leader of …read more