The first round of French elections
shows that for the firs time the barriers have come down among
forces that are alternative to the Left, Premier Giorgia Meloni
said Monday citing support from some of the centre-right
Republicain group for Marine Le Pen's rightwing National Rally
(RN) which came top with 33% of the vote ahead of a leftwing
alliance on 28% and President Emmanuel Macron's centrist group
on 21%.
Meloni underlined the fact that the "old barriers" between the
alternative forces to the left are apparently being overcome in
several countries and commented that "it seems to me that even
in France we are going in this direction".
She stressed: "For the first time Le Pen's party had allies
already from the first round and for the first time it seems to
me that even the Républicain are oriented not to participate in
the so-called republican front, which in the past erected a
cordon sanitaire to keep the Right out.
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