麻豆社

The people of France are preparing to vote this weekend in the closest presidential race for decades. But whatever result comes from the ballot, one thing is certain the political order has been thrown into disarray.

People in rural France feel the political elite in Paris have been too focused on issues like immigration and how the troubled economy is hitting urban areas, while farming communities are also suffering from falling incomes.

The 麻豆社's Theo Leggett has been to rural Provence and the renowned wetlands of the picturesque Camargue, in the south of France, to find out what people want from the next president.

(Picture: Wetlands in the Camargue area of France. Getty Images.)