France’s 2027 presidential race has a major blind spot: culture

France’s 2027 presidential race is already heating up, but one subject remains conspicuously absent: culture. With eight months to go before what the article calls a crucial election, many candidates have offered little or nothing on art and cultural policy.

The debate, the chronicle argues, has reopened after the summer with a dispiriting political and media spectacle. Identity obsessions from the National Rally compete with what the article describes as employer cynicism and neoliberal orthodoxy.

Marine Le Pen, it says, has once again revived her party’s Islamophobic fixation by launching fresh attacks on the veil in public spaces. Against this backdrop, the article presents the absence of a cultural project as a major blind spot in the campaign for the Élysée Palace.