But the far right will also be preparing for difficult new responsibilities and scrutiny ― and the reality that the movement’s ideas, for now, remain on the fringe. Analysts are closely watching whether the far right will maintain one of its biggest advantages: its influence over the much bigger international center-right. Here’s how our international editions say the far right and its many critics are preparing for the European elections and the day after them. Even Macron’s personal involvement in the campaign has given Le Pen the opportunity to turn the European election into a “third round” of presidential election voting. The austerity imposed by the troika proved fertile ground for the far right, populists and euro-skeptics.

Source: Huffington Post May 23, 2019 11:03 UTC