Right-Wing Tide Washes Over Europe as Conservatives Dominate EU Elections in Shocking Rebuke to Status Quo

Prime Minister Le Pen? ‘We are ready to take power,’ says Marine Le Pen After National Rally Trounces President Macron’s Party in European Elections.

AP/Lewis Joly
Supporters of French right-wing National Rally react at the party election night headquarters, Sunday, June 9, 2024 at Paris. AP/Lewis Joly

Wild is the mot juste for what happened in France Sunday, and what may well describe what might happen less than a month from now — the likely entrée to power in a big way of the right-wing National Rally that could see one of its leaders, Marine Le Pen, or Jordan Bardella, become the new prime minister. 

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