France’s centre-right offers no serious opposition to Emmanuel Macron
The centre-right is offering no serious opposition to Emmanuel Macron
A YEAR ago Les Républicains (LR), the centre-right party in France, looked set to win presidential and parliamentary elections. Today, after many humiliations, they are licking their partly self-inflicted wounds. After François Fillon, an unpopular former prime minister, unexpectedly became its front man thanks to a new primary system, the party doggedly stuck with its failing candidate, long after a scandal about extravagant payments to his wife had obviously doomed his campaign.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Luckier with Wauquiez?”
Europe October 14th 2017
- The Spanish government calls the Catalans’ bluff
- The 31-year-old who looks set to be Austria’s next chancellor
- Ties between Turkey and America are near breaking point
- France’s centre-right offers no serious opposition to Emmanuel Macron
- Poland’s president turns on his former boss
- Many eastern Europeans feel nostalgia for the communist era
- The EU will not help the Catalan secessionists’ cause
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