Campaign-trail debates about research reduced to a sideshow as Ukraine, government finance, health and energy dominate.
People in Lyon, France, queue to cast their vote for the first round of the French presidential election.Before voters in France headed to the polls on 10 April, the two front runners — incumbent centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen — saw their approval rates rise following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
French presidents are elected in two rounds of voting. Macron and Le Pen came top in the first round with 27.8% and 23.1% of votes, respectively. That means they’ll go head-to-head in the second round, which will be held on 24 April, and one of them will be tasked with putting their campaign promises into practice by the end of this month.
“The near complete absence of science and research from the debates is quite striking,” says Patrick Lemaire, president of the College of Academic Learned Societies of France in Rennes, an organization that aims to foster interdisciplinary research.
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