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World Review from the New Statesman
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The Future of the Fifth Republic
The first round of France's presidential election is on the tenth of april. Valerie percres has been widely considered for rights best chance of dislodging emanuel macon from the elise. She must hold off challenges from marine lepen and eric zamor on the far right to make it o the run-off in 20th April. What was con ved as a portrait of a major european country going into a close fought election campaign has become something else, one of an election campaign against the backdrop of europe's biggest war since 19 forty five. But what does the future hold for the fifth republic against this dark international horizon?
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