@article{2017:kempf:die_franz,
title = {Die französischen Präsidentschaftswahlen vom 23. April und 7. Mai 2017 im Schatten des Terrors},
year = {2017},
note = {None of the past presidential elections of the Fifth Republic has been
shaped by such peculiarities as the last one . For one, President
François Hollande did not run for a second term because of poor
survey data . For another, the primary elections of the catch-all
parties surprisingly produced only “second rank” candidates,
Benoît Hamon for the Socialists and François Fillon for the
Republicans . While Hamon could not even find the support among his
own fellow party members due to his utopian programmatic positions,
Fillon was deeply entangled in a swamp of affairs . As a result only
the right populist Marine Le Pen and the independent candidate and
shooting star Emmanuel Macron qualified for the run-off elections on
May 7, 2017 . The social liberal Macron had built a new movement out
of nothing and thereby offered an alternative to the right-left
dominated party state . For the first time neither a Socialist nor a
Republican candidate were on the run-off ballot . Despite a high share
of abstentions, Macron’s Social-Liberal and pro-European program
convinced the majority of voters . About a third voted for the
anti-European right-wing extremist Le Pen, who argued protectionist
and state interventionist . This enabled her to double her voter share
and establish her party nationwide .},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {785--804},
author = {Kempf, Udo},
volume = {48},
number = {4}
}