It's Monday, April 11, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

As the old saying goes, there will always be France.

Well, maybe not always, but yesterday we look at a French national election that typical

of France in this kind of situation was inconclusive.

There's going to have to be a runoff on April the 24th.

But there are huge worldview issues here and I promise you some really interesting things for us to think about.

For one thing, the incumbent centrist president of France, Emmanuel Macron,

received about 27.4% of the total vote in yesterday's publicite.

Now that's not enough.

It's not even close to enough to being re-elected president.

But this is a multi-party election,

and there were several different candidates.

The number two

candidate in terms of votes was Maureen Le Penn who is head of a political party on

the right known as National Rally. It had previously been known as the National Front.

Lots of European history invoked with that name,

we're going to have to look a little deeper at the situation in France.

Let's just think about the fact that France had a national election.

And you're looking at a five-year cycle. about the fact that France had a national election.

And you're looking at a five-year cycle in France.

You're also looking at a different constitutional system

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