Kingmaker
French elections: Macron and Le Pen to fight for presidency in second round
Veteran far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon polled even better than five years ago and now has the unlikely role of kingmaker
'Russia is the kingmaker in the Middle East,' French professor Gilles Kepel says
Russia is the "kingmaker" in the Middle East because of the failure of Western policies, according to Gilles Kepel, a French political scientist who is currently at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.