Marine le pen and her far-right National Front (FN) began December looking like the leaders of a new wave of European populist nationalism. They were on the verge of winning two of France's regional elections and upsetting the country's traditionally bipartisan politics. Instead, mainstream parties manoeuvred to keep the fn out. Now some on France's centre-left hope this strategy could signal a deeper realignment. That is less far-fetched than it sounds. With many European countries facing populist insurgencies, parties of the centre-left and centre-right find themselves co-operating to hold off the upstarts.
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