The French far right may not have peaked

A man reads "Le Parisien" newspaper, seen the day after the second round of the French legislative election in Paris, France on July 5th 2024

2024-07-10  762  中等

The good news from the snap elections on July 7th is that tactical voting has dashed Marine Le Pen’s hopes that her hard-right National Rally (RN) would lead France’s next government. Squeezed by the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble bloc, the RN was pushed into an inglorious third place. The bad news is that nobody has a clue what will happen next. Mr Macron can stay in the Elysée Palace until 2027. But to run the country, and get legislation through parliament, he needs a prime minister and a government, and that looks tricky. A return to the Fourth Republic’s drift looms.

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