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 Howell is the editor and producer of The Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.
Jacob Schulz is the former managing editor of Lawfare. He previously served as deputy managing editor and associate editor. He hails from Pennylvania and attended Amherst College.
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.