The socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the president of the far-right National Rally, Marine Le Pen, and the spokesperson for the far-left Workers’ Struggle party, Nathalie Arthaud. Does this mean that equality between women and men in the public and political life has made progress? Royal had faced and lost to former President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, while Le Pen suffered the same fate against President Emmanuel Macron in 2017. The extreme fragmentation of the French political landscape certainly has something to do with it, as does the density of economic, social, and security problems exacerbated by a neverending health crisis in COVID-19. She is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the National Front, now known as the National Rally.

Source: Ethiopian News November 23, 2021 22:56 UTC