Far-Right Parties Pass Macron’s in Poll

France’s far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party jumped ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s LREM for the first time in a poll of voting intentions for May 2019 European Parliament elections. An Ifop poll published Sunday showed the centrist Republic on the Move (LREM) with 19 percent of voting intentions compared with 20 percent at the end of August, while far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s RN, formerly the National Front, rose to 21 percent from 17 percent previously. Together with...

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