In France, if you're going left or right economically speaking, what are you voting for?

Hello, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne, a very good morning to you.

Today marks the official start of the French

election campaign that snap poll called by President Emmanuel Macron after his

party lost ground to the far-right national rally at the EU elections earlier this month. I've got the BBC's

Hugh Schofield on this. Hello? Hi. Hugh before we get into the economics of it

first of all France's soccer captain Killeen and Bape he's had something to say on this election, hasn't he?

Yeah, he's in Germany for the euros and he gave a press conference in which he urged young people to come out and vote.

He said that they needed to vote against the extremes, as he put it.

I think he was being very diplomatic, but I think everyone can read the ruins what he's saying really is

to turn out against the hard right.

And it's seen as important because of course he has a following among young people

that far, far exceeds anything that any politician has.

It all really kicks off today, doesn't it Hugh?

Do we know anything about the economic policies of the different parties?

If we can, you know, look at the two sort of opposition blocks,

that is the far right and the left you can

see actually they've got pretty similar policies and we say far right but of course the

national rallies economic policies are very statist about creating simulating demand putting money back into the

pockets of people in order to improve their living standards and so on and so what

they are proposing for example is lowering VAT on fuel and they're proposing, for example, is lowering VAT on fuel and electricity and so on and cutting payroll charges so that people go home with a bigger pay packet, that kind of thing.

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