… the far left to the far right. Some will be repeats from 2017 such as the hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of La France … (formerly the Front National) who ran against Macron in 2017; and Valérie Pécresse, the president of the … Nicholas Sarkozy as minister of higher education and research in 2007-11 and minister of the budget and government …