 2020 has seen a clear shift to the right from France's president Macron in June following the municipal elections when a cabinet reshuffle brought his administration substantially to the right in terms of its leading personnel and more recently in the form of two pieces of legislation, one of which grants extraordinary new powers to law enforcement and the other of which while purportedly targeting religious extremism writ large, but which in reality many critics claim has been a much broader attack on the 8% of France's population, which is Muslim. The shift to the right has two reasons, one of which is more tactical oriented towards 2022 where his biggest competitor, far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen is currently even with him in the polls and he seeks to grab away a portion of her electorate with his law and order rhetoric. The other part is an authoritarian shift that we've seen from Macron really dating back to his heavy-handed response to the yellow vest uprising in 2019 and which continues to this day through these pieces of legislation in the bull string of police.