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Our panel of international journalists look at Donald Trump’s latest comments concerning his border wall, this while his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on an official visit to Mexico, Turkish diplomats seeking asylum in Germany, and Marine Le Pen’s lead in the French presidential election.
Final hours of campaigning for the second round of France's presidential election, and right until the bitter end, it's been divisive, aggressive, and unpredictable. Our panel of international journalists give us their take on a long a bitter race, share their prognostics for Sunday’s vote, and their most memorable moments on the campaign trail.
Today in The World This Week, our panel of international journalists look at the French presidential race between far right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump’s 100 day milestone, and the Papal visit to Egypt.
It was clear from the outset that this campaign would upend French politics. Then with a little more than 24 hours of campaigning left a 39-year old convict targeted police on Paris' Champs-Elysées, killing an officer, injuring three, dying in a hail of bullets and stealing everyone's attention. How will this impact the election? With the top four candidates still neck-and-and neck, our panel of international journalists try to make sense of an election unlike any France has seen before.
Now it's a four-way race, as polls put communist-backed French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon even or ahead of conservative François Fillon. With less than two weeks until the first round, we'll see why Socialists seem to be deserting their nominee in favor of Melenchon, whose movement dubs itself "insurgent France". Who's the true insurgent in the race? How much is about protest and how much is about policy?
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