European electoral earthquake might signal voters are sick of far-left government
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The recent European Union parliamentary elections represented a massive political earthquake.
Across the continent, in virtually every country, power shifted away from establishment politicians and toward populist parties.
EU voters in 27 countries voiced their concern over illegal immigration, militant Islamization, a weak European economy, and an intrusive, aggressive and domineering Brussels bureaucracy.
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In France, for example, the incumbent government was so decisively repudiated that President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the legislature and called for new elections this summer. After two generations of effort by National Rally President Marine Le Pen, and her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who led the party from 1972 to 2011) the conservative National Rally Party won twice as many seats as Macron’s party.
Marine Le Pen leaves the Rassemblement National (RN) party headquarters in Paris on June 10, 2024, after a meeting with Marion Marechal and Jordan Bardella, a day after the European Parliament elections. (Adnan Farzat/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
In the upcoming French special election, it is possible that Le Pen’s party will have elected its first prime minister, which would turn........
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