Could the continent’s far right be suffering from a Trumplash?
France’s National Rally missed key targets in local elections ahead of next year’s seismic presidential vote – and the mainstream is doing OK elsewhere, too• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Rassemblement National is not invincible. A year out from a...
<p>France’s National Rally missed key targets in local elections ahead of next year’s seismic presidential vote – and the mainstream is doing OK elsewhere, too</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/22/this-is-europe-sign-up-guardian-email-updates">Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here</a></p><p>The Rassemblement National is not invincible. A year out from a make-or-break presidential vote, that might be the main lesson (though there are others, which may prove more significant) from last weekend’s local elections in France. What’s more, news elsewhere – Giorgia Meloni’s referendum defeat in Italy, Janez Janša beaten in Slovenia, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán in trouble, the left bloc largest in Denmark – might suggest the rest of Europe’s far right are not having it all their own way, either.</p><p>But let’s focus first on France – if only because while local elections <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/france-local-election-results-unexpected-lift-centrist-parties">are rarely a wholly accurate guide</a> to future national outcomes, these ones seem to provide some pointers – and the stakes in the country’s next major election are vertiginously high.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/could-the-continents-far-right-be-suffering-from-a-trumplash">Continue reading...</a>
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