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French Social Democracy In Turmoil
In a turbulent political summer, few surprises were greater than that caused by French president Emmanuel Macron’s decision in June to call early parliamentary elections. Macron’s party had just been trounced in the European Parliament elections; and victory for the far right seemed likely. In the end, thanks to some last minute deals, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally did not win. Rather, it was an alliance of the left that secured most seats in the National Assembly.
France’s Socialist Party was regularly in power from the early 1980s till the mid 2010s. But it collapsed spectacularly in the…
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