Le Pen Loses Luster, Signaling Far Right’s Retreat in France, and Maybe Beyondbr that But one day they’ll cry out to the National Front to rescue them,br Jean Messiha said that There’s been a recomposition of French political life,br Pascal Gannat said that We’ve renounced our position of being the nationalist party of the right,br By ADAM NOSSITERJUNE 16, 2017br SOISSONS, France — Just this spring, Marine Le Pen’s presidential campaign drew vast crowds who enthusiasticallybr embraced her National Front’s stridently nationalist, anti-immigrant vision of France.br Le Pen once dreamed of leading the principal opposition party to Mr. Macronbr and of marshaling a hundred or more parliamentary deputies to push the Front’s harsh nationalist agenda.br "They abstained because they think that with this unjust voting system we have been subjected to for years" — winner take all, instead of proportional — "they don’t think they will elect anybody who can represent them."br But there is wide agreement that the Front’s problems go way beyond poor turnout.br Mr. Macron has blasted into insignificance not only the National Front, but the traditional right and left parties as well.