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Why Le Pen's plan for a constitutional referendum would be 'a coup d'état in form and content'

If she were to win, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has pledged to call a referendum to revise the Constitution and enshrine the far right's core principles in it. According to a member of the highest administrative court, this would be 'a double coup d'état, both in form and content.'

Why Le Pen's plan for a constitutional referendum would be 'a coup d'état in form and content'

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