the country has "taken leave of its senses".
the political discourse is getting increasingly wild, leading to our columnist John Lichfield to declare that the country has "taken leave of its senses".
Latest polling suggests that Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National party would take the biggest vote share at 33 percent, followed by the increasingly fragile leftist coalition Nouveau Front Populaire with 29 percent and then Emmanuel Macron's centrist group with 22 percent.
'Article 16 of the constitution' was trending on French Twitter; this is the one that lays out the powers afforded to the president versus the prime minister, as people tried to work out what - if any - decisions Macron would be able to take in the final three years of his mandate.
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