 socialist france offered america with a k another big glimpse at what may lie directly ahead if the election goes off as planned as of several days ago it looks like marine le pen and at least what passes for a right-wing party well centrist anyway in communist france was on track for big gains in the election it looked for a while at least like the french people and those that are otherwise upset with what's been going on in europe were set to make some big gains conservative forces and marine le pen's right wing yeah sure