EDITORS NOTE: This photo is part of the AFP photo project named "Presidentielle: qu'attendent les electeurs? / Voters' voices in France's key election." / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - RESTRICTED TO FRENCH ELECTIONS ILLUSTRATION PURPOSE
Solange Desagher, a married with two children 47-year-old researcher on cell biology at a state-funded facility poses with her voting card at her lab on February 21, 2017 in Montpellier in southern France. What should be the priorities of the next French president? "The next president should draw on the expertise of French scientists in a number of areas when making decisions about the country. He or she should give researchers the resources to work, not necessarily by increasing research budgets but by better distributing available funding. The president should also support basic research, which can lead to big discoveries, by providing more funding for long-term programmes and commissioning fewer short-term projects. It is also important to support young scientists, by turning ad hoc contracts into permanent jobs in universities and research facilities, and employing them in senior civil service roles and in business." / AFP PHOTO / PASCAL GUYOT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - RESTRICTED TO FRENCH ELECTIONS ILLUSTRATION PURPOSE