A hard-right government might disrupt France’s relations with Europe
Or it could try to change the EU from within—which would be worse, reckons Jean Pisani-Ferry
IN 2017 EMMANUEL MACRON crushed Marine Le Pen in the second round of the French presidential election, taking 66% of the votes. In 2022 he defeated her more narrowly, but still comfortably, with 59%. Yet following the dissolution of the National Assembly, France’s parliament, his centrist party and its allies are now estimated to have the support of just 21% of the electorate, against 29% for the left-wing alliance known as the New Popular Front (NPF) and 37% for Ms Le Pen’s hard-right National Rally (RN).
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