What's the Biggest Surprising Thing About Marine Lapin's Party?

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France is now divided into three blocks in its political composition. It's got a left wing alliance around melanchan, and it's got the far right alliance around marine lepen. So what will that mean when it comes to actually governing for mister mc crawn? Well, it's going to be extremely difficult for him. I think we're looking at a pretty turbulent time for his second term in office.

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