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France is now in uncharted seas. But at the least, with this resoundingly affirmative vote, it sails with a compass and its wits.
He needs a majority in Parliament, but his party is barely a year old and doesn’t have a single seat in the Assembly.
Le Pen was defeated in a landslide this Sunday, but her nativist party probably isn't going anywhere.
We have seen a similar story before
WHAT'S HAPPENING
National Front candidate Marine Le Pen lost the French presidential election to her centrist opponent Emmanuel Macron, but the far-right party captured roughly 33 percent of the vote -- the largest share any National Front candidate has ever secured in a presidential contest. Le Pen's party will have another opportunity make political gains during Parliamentary elections in June.
Populism is no longer condemned to the extremist edge.
Macron's genius was launching a non-populist movement against left and right.