Posted on 02/02/2017 12:30:20 PM PST by Lorianne
With Marine le Pen transforming her National Front (NF) into a party for the populist era, analysts have been carefully assessing how French elections in May could deal a "severe blow" to the European Union (EU).
"It's difficult to imagine how the European Union could function should such a Euroskeptic (as Le Pen) be at the helm of one if its major economies … It would likely precede its fracturing," Michael Hessel, political economist at Absolute Strategy Research, told CNBC via telephone.
He said that that low voter turnout would be Le Pen's best hope of securing an unlikely election victory. He projected Le Pen had up to a one-in-five chance of becoming French president in May.
Le Pen has promised to renegotiate the terms of France's membership of the European Union if elected president in May. However, her chances of victory appear to be limited. Opinion polls suggest Le Pen would be defeated by the former conservative prime minister and her most likely political rival, Francois Fillon, in the second and final round of voting.
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Nothing about Frau Merkel insanity spurring them to it?
They already lost the fifth-largest (or sixth now, since India overtook them) economy in the world in Britain.
I bet they have Fake News Polling in France too.
Ending the EU/fourth Reich should be a top agenda goal for everybody , imho.
I blame it on global warming.
The US could insure that by suddenly and completely withdrawing from the Balkans.
What? If Le Pen is elected, it will mean the return of France! A country with a long history and pride.
The term “Euroskeptic” is straight out of some commie think-tank.
They did indeed chop off the head of Louis XV, (or was it XIV?) Anyway, death to the one-world ‘elite’.
Louis XVI.
BTW, we should worship and adore Russia. We had a foreign exchange student from Obninsk and we so connected with her and her family that I truly believe that Russia and the US are true and complete BFF friends forever.
They take no hostages when it comes to terrorism...
And the greedy Germans will have a big share of the blame for the collapse.
Hey! I was close! And an engineer...not much world history...
Largest civilization project of the 20th Century? Has the author never heard of the Soviet Union? or the Communist International?
One in five means there is no need to speculate about Le Penn.
You said it, they stink on ice. :)
Which should be done as soon as possible.
I think that fracturing is already in progress. The glue is old and brittle and beginning to disintegrate in the joints.
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