François Picard is pleased to welcome Thibault Muzergues, political director for Shared Ground and author of “The Woke Right”. France enters the final 300 days before its presidential election amid a politically combustible convergence of judicial investigations, institutional distrust and an increasingly fragmented party system. Muzergues argues that while allegations surrounding the far-right National Rally party raise legitimate legal questions, they also expose broader tensions between law, democracy and political legitimacy.