However, it seems clear to me that as soon as it is politically expedient for them to do so, they’ll pull whatever undeclared ‘external support’ to his government, and if they play their cards well, they’ll stand a better chance of winning than before.

I struggle to see how left wing voters could vote for anyone standing against the RN again. Macron, who presented himself as the bulwark against the RN, isn't doing a particularly good job at keeping it in check (as we’ve suggested in previous work: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dancing with the devil? Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and the articulation of a new political divide in France

This paper investigates how political challengers articulate new political divides in European political party systems and with what implications for representative democracy. Focusing on the case of....