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With National Rally officials looking with apprehension at the party’s next big challenge, seizing the Elysée presidential palace in 2027, a budding rivalry between student and master could grow into one that tears apart one of the most successful political partnerships in French postwar history.
On the left, voting instructions appear clearer: All leaders within the New Popular Front bloc have called on their third-place finishers to pull out whenever the National Rally is in the lead, clearing the field for centrist candidates when they’re best placed to defeat Le Pen’s party.
If the second-round vote on July 7 delivers a parliamentary majority for the National Rally — and forecasts suggest it’s possible — France will be in uncharted waters: The country would be governed, at least in part, by politicians who made their names sympathizing with Vladimir Putin while vowing to rip up the European Union, wage war on migration and quit NATO.