Is France Heading for a Civil War?

As French Muslims increasingly align with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s pro-Hamas party, that danger, for now, comes from the left.

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The French far-left party leader, Jean-Luc Melenchon, at Paris on May 1, 2022. AP/Lewis Joly

Is France heading to a civil war? Yes — if one is to believe the far-left activists, who keep saying that “they will not allow the far right to rule,” even if they win the coming general election democratically. 

According to the latest polls, Marine Le Pen’s and Jordan Bardella’s rightist National Rally and its right-of-center allies may get 36 percent of the popular vote nationwide in the first round, on July 30. And secure an absolute majority in the National Assembly in the second round, on June 7: 295 seats out of 577. 

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