The Lawfare Podcast: Round One of France’s Presidential Election
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Over the weekend, France held the first round of its presidential elections for 2022. The result was that the same two candidates as last time will move on to the final round: incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen. To talk through the election results and what comes next, Jacob Schulz sat down with Agneska Bloch, a senior research assistant at a DC-based think tank where she works on European affairs.
Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.
Jacob Schulz is a law student at the University of Chicago Law School. He was previously the Managing Editor of Lawfare and a legal intern with the National Security Division in the U.S. Department of Justice. All views are his own.
Agneska Bloch is a senior research assistant at a D.C.-based think tank where she works on European affairs. She was the 2020 Geostrategy & Diplomacy Fellow for the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and previously interned at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin. She graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in philosophy.
