Editing Political realignment (section)

==== France ====
* [[2017 French presidential election]]
** Neither the mainstream left [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] nor the mainstream right [[The Republicans (France)|Republicans]] made the second round of voting, the first time since the [[Second World War]] that both of the formerly dominant strands of French politics have not been represented. Instead, the two leading candidates – the eventual winner, [[centrism|centrist]] liberal [[pro-European]] [[Emmanuel Macron]] of [[En Marche]] and [[far-right]] [[Eurosceptic]] [[Marine Le Pen]] of the [[National Front (France)|National Front]] – were identified by many analysts as representing a new [[open–closed political spectrum]] between conservative protectionism and liberal globalism.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/what-pundits-are-saying-about-the-french-election.html|title=What Pundits Are Saying About the Next Phase of the French Election|first=Chas|last=Danner |newspaper=New York Magazine|date=23 April 2017|access-date=24 April 2017}}</ref> A similar realignment happened in the concurrent [[2017 French legislative election|2017 legislative election]].