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    What the French Election Might Have Looked Like in America

    The “populist wave” crashes on each country differently.
    by Uri Friedman Apr 28, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Christian Hartmann / Reuters

    Marine Le Pen—the far-right populist-nationalist who has advanced to the second round of the French presidential election along with the centrist, internationalist Emmanuel Macron—might today be the 25th president of the Republic if France had America’s electoral system, according to a new analysis from The Economist. The magazine envisions an alternate universe where France’s 18 regions function like U.S. states and the country’s two-phase presidential campaign morphs into a collège électoral.

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