The Le Pen Curse | Philippe Lemoine & Richard Hanania
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I Don't Think He's Going to Do This.
The French president is going to be back for another five years. The constitution gives him all the powers he needs, formally, to govern for five years. Despite having such a weak base, because he's going to have a strong majority. He can always threaten to dissolve with dissolving them and they're ging to do what he wants. And so in a democracy, it's very difficult to govern when you only have 25 % of the population that's really backing you.
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