FRANCIA - ELEZIONI
After Trump’s US Victory, could France Marine Le Pen be next?
After Brexit and the victory of Republican Donald Trump, many in France wonder if the next stunning upset could be in their country.
The presidential vote is just five months away and the far-right is polling strongly.
Marine Le Pen, head of France’s far-right National Front party, has been tweeting up a storm, morphing
effortlessly from congratulating US President-elect Donald Trump even before US election results were announced to skewering her rivals at home.
“We can make possible that which was impossible;
After the Brexit referendum for Britain to leave the European Union and the US elections, many wonder if the
next stunning upset could be in France, where the presidential vote is just five months away and Le Pen
has been polling strongly for months.
what the people want, the people can do,”
was one of the far-right leader’s latest
warnings to a French political mainstream that may be the next target of voter ire.
She is not the only one who may potentially gain ground.
Politicians from far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon to center-right former-President Nicolas Sarkozy
are all trying to tailor their political message to the outcome of the American campaign.
“It’s interesting to see how politicians here are turning Donald Trump’s victory into arguments that go in their direction,”
said analyst Bruno Cautres, of Science Po’s Centre for Political Research, in Paris.
