France: Crucial Need for Macron to Focus on Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech after his election victory in Paris, April 24, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – It is crucial for President Emmanuel Macron to make human rights a priority of both his domestic and his foreign policy in his second term, Human Rights Watch said today. Based on available results for the April 24, 2022 runoff presidential election, Macron received 58.5 percent of the votes, while Marine Le Pen received 41.4 percent and conceded defeat. Twenty-eight percent of eligible voters did not vote, a significant increase…

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