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Schizophrenic?

In France, Investors Get the Centrist Limbo They Wanted

7/8/24
from The Wall Street Journal,
7/8/24:

Polarization has for years left the country’s politics stuck in an unpopular middle ground, and the latest elections won’t change that.

Macron Loses as the Left Rises in France. He defeated Marine Le Pen’s party but at the cost of empowering some unsavory bedfellows.

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No party came close to a majority, and the lawmakers elected Sunday are now grouped into blocs with profound differences. The New Popular Front, an alliance of leftist parties that won the most seats in parliament, is a diverse coalition whose most powerful faction is a polarizing, far-left party, France Unbowed. Leaders of the pro-business bloc allied with President Emmanuel Macron, which came in second, have said they can’t form a government with France Unbowed. Marine Le Pen and other leaders of the far-right National Rally party, which came in third, have signaled they won’t form a government with either Macron’s party or the left, who say the feeling is mutual.

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