France’s Safeguards Against the Far-Right Are Starting to Unravel
Left-leaning alliance emerges as Le Pen’s main challenger
For generations, the French establishment had a tacit agreement that prevented far-right parties from getting close to national power. That model is starting to come apart.
Even Macron has refused to say for whom he would vote if he had to choose between Le Pen and Melenchon.
To be sure, the Popular Front is a fragile alliance and its members have papered over a number of deep-rooted differences in an effort avoid fragmenting the left-wing vote, so it could still be undermined by public infighting in the two weeks until the first round of voting.
Bloomberg 17 June 2024
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