{
  "id": 1620093,
  "title": "Why Le Pen's plan for a constitutional referendum would be 'a coup d'état in form and content'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/why-le-pens-plan-for-a-constitutional-referendum-would-be-a-coup",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T03:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2026/08/18/why-le-pen-s-plan-for-a-constitutional-referendum-would-be-a-coup-d-etat-in-form-and-content_6756611_5.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.'",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}