I don't think Marine Le Pen would be good for France I think she'll just stir up culture wars. I know religious symbolism is banned in schools in France in their desire to remain secular, I can understand that, but I read somewhere that she is planning to ban the headscarf in public areas, a step too far imo, what's a headscarf ? it's not a barrier in any way, as maybe the niquab and burkas are perceived to be. In fact at one time back in the '60s they were incredibly fashionable. I do think in their desire to have their immigrant population subscribe to the French way of life, at times they take a sledgehammer to crack a nut in their blanket bans on certain apparel for example, I think that is too draconian. We often have the errors of our colonial past pointed out to us, but it should be remembered that the French as former colonialists haven't always treated their Algerian population who supported them in the Algerian war particularly well, many felt abandoned in the banlieues where they suffered from racist attitudes towards them from the indigenous French population. The other far right candidate Zemmour has pretty similar views as to stirring up anti Muslim sentiments. It does seem therefore that Macron as lukewarm as people may feel about him, would not present the threat to democracy that either of those two would and a worst case scenario that tips any divided nation in to civil war given what's playing out to the east of Europe at the moment would be too horrible to contemplate.
