Ben Hall
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And I think that's a risk because it could turn off more mainstream voters and she would need their support if she is to win the second round runoff.
in the election, which is in the beginning of May next year.
The second gamble is that if somehow France's highest court was to come back sooner than perhaps she expects, maybe in February or March next year, and says, actually, we uphold your conviction, we uphold your electronic tag ban, or even worse for her, decides that the ban should be longer, then the Rassemblement campaign would be thrown into disarray.
So this is a race to succeed Emmanuel Macron, whose second term comes to an end in May.
The first round of the election is on the 18th of April and the second round two weeks later.
The real threat from the Rassemblement National is because they are streets ahead in the polls.
And they are facing a whole host of potential opponents.
So the sort of mainstream opposition is hugely divided.
I think there are some sort of 35 candidates or potential candidates for this race, which means that unless they decide to coalesce around one candidate, the risk is that they will not be able to build up enough momentum to stop the
the far right from winning the presidency outright in a second round.
Well, what are the implications of that then?
That would be a massive deal for France and Europe, because although this party is not the party it once was under Marine Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, which it was a racist, openly anti-Semitic party.
very anti-EU, wanted to pull France out of the EU.
It is still a radical party.
It's a huge force for disruption in the EU as well as in France itself.
Thank you.
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