Implode-o-Meter News - French Insurgents Thrust Establishment Aside in Crucial Vote

``Every election since Charles de Gaulle founded the Fifth Republic more than half a century ago has seen at least one of the major parties in the presidential runoff and most have featured both. With Republicans and Socialists consumed by infighting and voters thoroughly fed up, polls suggest that neither will make it this year.
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"We've gone as far as we can go with a certain way of doing politics," said Brice Teinturier, head of the Ipsos polling company and author of a book on voters' disillusionment. "Everyone feels the system is blocked."
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"There's a breakdown of parties in France," Francois Bayrou, a two-time centrist candidate who is now backing Macron, said Tuesday on RMC Radio. "There are hostile battles between factions within each party, which has ruined the parties and ruined the image of politics."

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French Insurgents Thrust Establishment Aside in Crucial Vote