A painful defeat in France’s local elections this weekend showed the fragility of Emmanuel Macron’s party La République en Marche with less than two years to go to the next presidential election. LREM failed to take any of France’s large cities in Sunday’s second-round vote and allied incumbents elsewhere were swept from power. In Paris, which was supposed to be a showcase for the party’s disruptive appeal, its campaign was scuppered by scandal and infighting. Its candidate for mayor of the capital failed even to win a seat on the council. The only success for the government was Prime Minister Edouard Philippe’s comfortable victory in the port city of Le Havre. It says a lot about the handicaps of Mr Macron’s party, which is split between left and right-leaning factions and has few senior compelling figures, that Mr Philippe is not even a member.
上周末，法國(guó)總統(tǒng)馬紐埃爾?馬克龍(Emmanuel Macron)的共和國(guó)前進(jìn)黨(La République En Marche)在法國(guó)市政選舉中慘敗，這顯示出該黨在距離下屆總統(tǒng)大選不到兩年之際的脆弱性。在上周日的第二輪選舉中，共和國(guó)前進(jìn)黨未能拿下法國(guó)任何一個(gè)大城市，其他市鎮(zhèn)的在任盟友紛紛被趕下臺(tái)。在本應(yīng)展示該黨顛覆性吸引力的巴黎，其競(jìng)選活動(dòng)因丑聞和內(nèi)訌而搞砸。該黨的巴黎市長(zhǎng)候選人甚至未能贏得市議會(huì)的席位。馬克龍政府唯一取得的成功是總理愛(ài)德華?菲利普(édouard Philippe)在港口城市勒阿弗爾(Le Havre)輕松獲勝。馬克龍的政黨已分裂為左翼和右翼兩派，而且?guī)缀鯖](méi)有具有號(hào)召力的高層人物；突顯該黨弱點(diǎn)的是，菲利普連黨員都不是。