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The Spectator

The banning of Marine Le Pen will benefit the French right, but it is another worrying example of an out-of-control elite class.

Le Pen may be gone, but her party will probably benefit from this judgement. The anger of her 11 million voters is likely to go from simmering to seething in the days and weeks ahead. Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, reacted to the verdict by tweeting “Je Suis Marine.”