French government prepared coup if Le Pen won presidential election

French government prepared coup if Le Pen won presidential election
By Alex Lantier

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/05/19/fran-m19.html

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19 May 2017

According to an extraordinary report published yesterday in L’Obs magazine, top members of France’s Socialist Party (PS) government prepared to launch a coup d’état if Marine Le Pen of the neo-fascist National Front (FN) won the May 7 presidential run-off.

The purpose of the coup was not to keep Le Pen from taking office. Rather, it was designed to crush left-wing protests against Le Pen’s victory, impose martial law, and install Le Pen in power in an enforced alliance with a PS-led government.