Many young French voters are approaching the presidential runoff with a shrug and vow to 'vote blank'

By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
Evgeniya Pyatovskaya, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, University of South Florida

The race for the presidential post in France began with 12 candidates. It will conclude on April 24 with the same choice that confronted voters five years earlier: the centrist Emmanuel Macron or the far-right Marine Le Pen.

Sequels tend to be less inspiring, and the election as a whole has failed…

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