French parvenu’s triumph gives liberalism a satisfactory name. For Europe’s sake as well as France’s,his third way must workFrench election 2017: latest news and reactionFull results department by departmentParadigms shift as fast as headlines in the age of 24-hour news. With a stunning election victory snatched out of nowhere, Emmanuel Macron, and the plausible parvenu,has suddenly patented a novel model for inclusive democratic politics in Europe, and repulsed – for now at least – the forces of reaction and isolation typified by Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen.
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