Marine Le Pen Gets a Lift From an Unlikely Source: The Far Left that Among his voters, many will refuse to vote for Macron, and many could vote for us, National Front said that Lots of voters in the electorate that chose Fillon, Dupont-Aignan Mr. Coquerel said that It’s coming from those whose policies have favored the development of the National Front, from the Socialist Party, The Front’s founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen — kicked out of the party by his daughter partly over his racism — hailed Mr. Mélenchon’s position warmly in an interview on French radio Tuesday. Mr. Mélenchon’s 19.6 percent of the vote Sunday is now a rich booty — triple the score of the mainstream Socialist Party, whose collapse has elevated Mr. Mélenchon to be de facto leader of the French left. The coming vote would be a contest between "fans of Mrs. Merkel and the unsubjugated," he wrote — an apparent reference to Mr. Mélenchon’s movement and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who is criticized on both the far left and the far right as pursuing policies that have impoverished European Union states.
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