Long Reads: Macron's Rightward March w/ Bruno Amable
At the beginning of June this year, Emmanuel Macron called a snap election for the French National Assembly. The move came after the far-right party of Marine Le Pen, the National Rally, topped the poll in France’s European election. The party was widely expected to repeat that performance in the national election and form a government for the first time. But a left-wing alliance, the New Popular Front, thwarted the ambitions of Le Pen and her ally Jordan Bardella.
The New Popular Front was the largest single bloc in the National Assembly and should have been given the opportunity to nominate…
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