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D. Le Pen is a hard-line nationalist and an advocate of economic protectionism and closed borders. She wanted France to stop using the euro as its currency, leave the European Union and pull out of the NATO military alliance. Macron is a centrist globalist who strongly supports France’s role in the EU and NATO.
C. Computer security experts said they believe that the same Russian government-backed hackers who attacked Hillary Clinton’s U.S. presidential campaign also broke into Macron’s computers. His opponent Le Pen had called for closer ties between France and Russia, and her campaign received several loans from Russian banks.
B. Under France’s constitution, the president is supreme political leader and can choose a prime minister, who then recommends government ministers. Although named by the president, the cabinet is responsible to the House of Deputies and can be forced to resign through a motion of no confidence.
A. French King Louis XVI ran up a huge debt supporting the American Revolution against British rule. France’s financial crisis after the American Revolution was one of many contributing factors to the French Revolution, which ultimately claimed the life of Louis XVI.