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Major parties collapsing

The French election is a harbinger of what’s to come

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

Want evidence of there being a big problem right now with mainstream political parties in the West? A fortnight or so ago in the first round of the French presidential election the centre-right Gaullist party, the one which has ruled France for most of the post-1958 Fifth Republic era, scored 4.7

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