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Third time lucky? Le Pen sets her sights on the Élysée Palace
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO May 31, 2021 05:07pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Charles Bremner |
| News Date | Friday, May 28, 2021 11:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It is the spring of 2022, and President Le Pen is settling into the Élysée palace while the world absorbs the shock of the arrival of a hard-right head of state and government in France.
Such a vision was implausible after the 2017 election, which ended with Emmanuel Macron thrashing Marine Le Pen by 32 percentage points in a run-off. Yet the possibility is haunting the mainstream political world because, less than a year from the next presidential election, the far-right family firm founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine’s antisemitic father, is within reach of the presidency.
She leads in surveys of the wider first-round contest and is only five or six points off Macron in some run-off polls. With the country in an even more toxic mood than usual, the planets appear to be aligning in her third run for the Élysée. |
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