It’s time for Marine Le Pen to quit and spend more time with her Bengal cats. More importantly, it’s time for the third of French voters who support her to face the reality that her programme is incoherent and unachievable.
Her election to the presidency in 2027 would be a disaster for France and a missed opportunity to repair what ails the French republic.
That Marine Le Pen is called ‘far-right’ is a testament to the laziness of journalists
This may be a counterintuitive argument at a time when all opinion polls show that Marine Le Pen is the most favoured candidate for the French presidency in 2027. It’s true that after three failed attempts at the Elysée and 40 years in political life, she’s the most recognisable name on the playing field. A recent Harris Interactive Poll showed that in the first round of the 2027 election Marine Le Pen (RN) would win and get through to the second round, with 31 per cent of the votes, versus the candidacy of Macron’s former prime minister, the centrist Édouard Philippe on 21 per cent.
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