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The race for the Elysée: chaos, scandal and intrigue

The French elections are, if we're honest, a mess. And the mess gets messier by the day.

Since writing this piece for IB Times, I have seen the leftwing rivals Benoit Hamon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon have hinted at joining forces - which would be interesting if the single candidate carried all those who supported the one standing aside - and Marine Le Pen has refused to answer police questions about her party's dodgy financial arrangements.

Oh, and François Fillon's Welsh wife, at the centre of a damaging scandal about payments for imaginary or at least highly exaggerated parliamentary work, is now reported to have decamped from Paris to get away from the fuss.

Catch an earlier podcast of mine, too, at this link ...

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