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DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marie Le Pen’s far-right Front National party\, renamed 
 by his daughter and successor Marine as the less aggressive-sounding Rasse
 mblement National\, is by far the most popular political party in France t
 oday. Opinion polls suggest that Marine Le Pen\, or her young protégé Jo
 rdan Bardella\, are on track to win the next presidential and legislative 
 elections due in 2027— something unthinkable only a decade ago. The appa
 rently inexorable rise of the French far right is part of a worldwide phen
 omenon marked by the British vote for Brexit in 2016\, two election victor
 ies for Donald Trump\, and increasing popularity for extremist parties acr
 oss Europe\, even in countries such as Germany and Spain previously though
 t to be have inoculated against fascism by the experience of dictatorships
  in the middle of the last century. A victory for the Eurosceptic RN in Fr
 ance would have a profound impact on the liberal internationalist project 
 that is the European Union\, and probably on Nato as well\, given the pro-
 Putin sympathies displayed in the past by Le Pen and other senior party me
 mbers. Despite occasional setbacks for the far right\, it would be naive t
 o assume\, as many French policymakers have done\, that Bardella or Le Pen
  have little chance of coming to power. If they are stopped in their track
 s\, the most likely problem for the far right will probably have come not 
 from inside France — where rival parties and politicians have never been
  so weak — as from outside: a catastrophe for the Trump administration\,
  for example\, or an unforeseen expansion of the Russian war in Ukraine. \
 n\n \n\nVictor Mallet Biography\n\nVictor is a journalist\, editor\, comme
 ntator and author with more than four decades of experience in Europe\, As
 ia\, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently based in Paris and London
  as a senior editor on the Financial Times world desk. His new book\, just
  published by Hurst in the UK and Europe and available in the US from Marc
 h 15\, is Far-Right France: Le Pen\, Bardella and the Future of Europe\, a
 nd is the result of recent reporting across France as well as his three se
 parate stints as a correspondent in France. His previous book was River of
  Life\, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future (OUP\, 2017)\, whi
 le his highly praised analysis of the south-east Asian industrial revoluti
 on and the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis\, The Trouble with Tigers (Harpe
 rCollins)\, was first published in 1999. Victor’s previous jobs include 
 FT Asia editor in Hong Kong\, bureau chief in Paris and postings in New De
 lhi and Madrid as well as coverage of the Middle East\, Africa and south-e
 ast Asia. He twice won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for opinion
  writing. In India\, he was twice awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Exc
 ellence in Journalism as a foreign correspondent\, for features on the ris
 e of Narendra Modi and on the River Ganges.
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