Some people just can’t take ‘non’ for an answer, can they?
When they tallied up the votes Sunday evening in the snap elections called by France’s unpopular diminutive president Emmanuel Macron, it seemed the establishment’s worst nightmare had come to pass. In the first round of voting, “right-wing” firebrand Marine LePen’s National Rally (RN) party wiped the floor with the opposition, scoring “historic gains,” handing her a triumphant victory, and sending a seismic shockwave through the entrenched liberal-leftist parties of the French political landscape.
They were sent reeling in horror.
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of France’s parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, but the final result will depend on days of horsetrading before next week’s run-off.The RN was seen winning around 34% of the vote, exit…
