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20 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#WorldatFive 🌎: The once mighty Republicans party is nearly a decade out of power and is still weeks from choosing its candidate to face President Macron.

With each passing day it loses ground to a racist outsider, @CharlesBremner writes. thetimes.co.uk/article/french…
With the election six months away, many MPs are appalled that the centre-right party is waiting another six weeks before anointing its champion to resist the recent ambush of the right by Zemmour, the anti-Muslim TV pundit.
A quarter of people who voted for the last Republicans presidential candidate, the scandal-dogged François Fillon, are telling pollsters that in next April’s election they will back Zemmour, who has several convictions for hate speech.
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