Sophie Pedder

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155 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Marine warfare: Le Pen runs for president · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

That will now be up to her whether she wants to take any of that on board.

The two of them say they're going to work together, and today they're off campaigning in a market together.

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They are definitely making those sounds, but I think there's inevitably going to be tensions between them, now that it's Maureen Le Pen who's the boss.

Well, Rosie, honestly, if you look at the list, you wouldn't believe how long it is.

There are at least 30, even 40 candidates who say they're going to run.

So it's very messy and very crowded at this point.

I think what you need to focus on are the leading characters.

And in the center, that's the succession space to Emmanuel Macron.

There are two prime ministers of his, Edward Philippe and Gabrielle Attal, both have declared they're running and they are campaigning at the moment.

We have Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the populist left who has declared that he's running again.

Then there's a candidate on the center right, and there's a bunch of candidates among socialists and one Green.

So too many candidates at this point.

We don't know how that'll filter out in the end, but for now, at least they know who they are up against and what kind of campaign they have to shape.

If you look at the polling for the first round, France holds a two round presidential election.

The first round, she has a crushing lead, and these are polls that were taken before the verdict.

So we'll need to look at how they look afterwards.

But the lead in the first round voting is absolutely clear and it made no difference whether it was Jordan Bardella or her.

She's at around thirty percent in the polls with the next place candidate, no better than about twenty percent.

That would be someone like Edouard Philippe.

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