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French Right NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the turmoil besetting the right-wing political establishment in France. Mainstream politicians have struck power-sharing deals with the extremist National Front, to hold onto power in regional assemblies. Critics are drawing comparisons with the Vichy collaborationist government during World War Two. In the meantime, National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen been convicted of assault and stripped of his civil rights.

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NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the turmoil besetting the right-wing political establishment in France. Mainstream politicians have struck power-sharing deals with the extremist National Front, to hold onto power in regional assemblies. Critics are drawing comparisons with the Vichy collaborationist government during World War Two. In the meantime, National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen been convicted of assault and stripped of his civil rights.