Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
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- Marine Le Pen gained ground in first round of presidential elections on Sunday.
- The far-right candidate will face President Macron for the top job.
- They battled it out five years ago, but results suggest Macron is now facing a tougher fight.
- Final vote on 24 April.
- Le Pen is a far-right candidate, President Macron is a centrist.
Macron must work hard
France24 writes Macron goes into the April 24 run-off with a starkly diminished reservoir of votes in what large swaths of the country have come to see as a choice of “the lesser of two evils”.
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“Macron destroyed the left-right divide”
Aljazeera says Virginie Martin, a research professor at Kedge Business School, said the runoff is a consequence of an increasingly polarised France, with each of the top two candidates presenting two different images of society.
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"A profound reconfiguration"
The Conversation says The momentum of the strategic vote, which picked up barely a month before the first round, appears to confirm the restructuring of the French political field around three major poles dating back to the 2017 election.
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Labour vote share falls to lowest in more than two years
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Rise in far right
ABC says the far-right insurgent reshaping the race for the French presidency, adding "their society is cracking apart".
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French elections: Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
French elections: Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
French elections: Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
French elections: Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
French elections: Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
French elections: Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
French elections: Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
French elections: Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections?
