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Originally Posted by blankall
I don't know if I'd call it a collapse. They went from 18.7 to 33.2% of the popular vote between elections. It was more a cade of the center and left voters strategically teaming up to keep the right out of power. France's voting system of multiple rounds of voting allows for just that.
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you're right, it's not a collapse. But after seeing pretty much all of Europe drift to the right in recent elections, I take those results from the UK and France as a win. Yes, they come with certain asterisks, but at this point, I'll take what I can get.