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Chris Hanretty

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My interpretation of Macron's decision to call an early election is that he wants the RN candidate in the 2027 presidential election to bear the cost of governing (i.e., thinking one election ahead). Here's a graph that shows populist parties bear that cost like other parties

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R code used is here: gist.github.com/chrishanrett... ; data comes from ParlGov and popu-list.org

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