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With conservative candidate François Fillon crashing due to scandals, it seems that France may make an interesting show this summer. Now I certainly don’t know enough about the details of French politics, but France pushing to drop the Euro, and maybe even the EU would really damage the EU well beyond anything Brexit could ever do. I really thought Trump didn’t have a chance in hell of wining until the last month of the campaign. So I now wonder, could this new shoe drop, and just how bad could it get. Could Marine Le Pen actually win?
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/6/14522856/marine-le-pen-islam-populism-nativism-trump-frexit-brexit
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/6/14522856/marine-le-pen-islam-populism-nativism-trump-frexit-brexit
Marine Le Pen, the face and leader of the French far-right Front National party, believes France should exit the European Union, drop the euro, and fight radical Islam, and not necessarily in that order.
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For months polls have predicted FN doing very well in the first round of voting for the presidential election. France has a two-round system of voting, which means voters go into vote on April 23 for a pack of candidates, knowing there will be a runoff election in May. The most recent IFOP poll puts Le Pen in the lead, with some 25 percent the vote in the first ballot on April 23.
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While Le Pen is widely expected to be trounced on the second ballot by an upstart named Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old former economy minister and banker, the FN is challenging the very heart of the French modern political establishment — and giving a boost to far-right parties across the continent.
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Le Pen’s rise tracks that of Donald Trump and those who successfully advocated for the Brexit vote, as well the waves of populism sweeping the Netherlands and other parts of Europe. She appears to like the comparison.