US EditionLocal Elections in France: Right-Wing Populists in Several Cities
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Already after the first round of the local elections in France, the winners are certain: the parties of the right and left margin. The left-wing populists benefit from the votes of Arab citizens. For the presidential election in 2027, one can guess.
Marine Le Pen celebrates the result as a "giant victory". After all, the right-wing Rassemblement National (RN) party is leading in 58 municipalities. In Paris the socialist Grégoire leads.
The right-wing populists are on the rise. But another candidate can also breathe up. Why the national local elections are a test of mood.
According to the first projections, some right-wing populists won in the local elections in France, according to which RN candidates won in Toulon and Perpignan.
In the local elections in France, several victories of the right-wing populist Rassemblement National (RN) party are evident. According to projections, RN MP Laure Lavalette is ahead in the southern French port town of Toulon with 39.4 percent of the votes, about nine points more than the independent incumbent Josée Massi. If the result is confirmed, it would be an important victory for the RN, which in 1995 already represented the mayor in Toul…
The Rassemblement National extends a hand to "sincere right-wing lists, independent lists, and everyone who rejects both the chaos of the far left and the dilution of Macronism." This is what Jordan Bardella, chairman of the radical right-wing party, says now that, according to him, several of his incumbent mayors have been re-elected in the first round of the municipal elections in France.
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