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France's political system is crumbling. What's coming next looks scary

Marine Le Pen has the centre-right in her sights. And Hollande has no clue and little hope

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

Last week President François Hollande, following his party’s humiliation in the European parliamentary elections (his Socialists won roughly half as many seats as the National Front), decided to cheer himself up. He left Paris and travelled to Clairefontaine to mingle with France’s World Cup football squad.

‘If you do win the World Cup final on 13 July,’ he told the millionaire players (most of whom avoid Hollande’s taxes by being paid outside France), ‘you will deserve a triumphant welcome.

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