from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 12:16
https://lemmy.world/post/44372946
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has done well in the first round of local elections. But the second round is its Achilles heel, as rivals can team up against it.
The far-right National Rally had reason to hope this month’s French municipal elections would show it now has an unstoppable momentum before the presidential race in 2027.
After all, the party has been on a steady upward trajectory during this election cycle, with polls showing Jordan Bardella, the party’s president, as the frontrunner ahead of next year’s campaign.
But while its candidates did very well in Sunday’s first round, particularly in important southern cities such as Marseille and Toulon, it looks like Marine Le Pen’s troops are still falling short of the decisive breakthrough they seek.
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Good. Fuck em.
Anyone sane has looked at the far right in the US and gone “nope”.
Marine Le Pen est la pire. Elle est comme Trump, mais en française.
Thank fuck, the numbers RN has pulled lately are really depressing. And Macron’s slap in the face to the left and olive branch to RN a couple years ago was just absolutely pants-on-head stupid. But corporatist neoliberals gonna corporatist neoliberal, I guess.
Anyone have any insight on why NR does particularly well in the south of France?
Racism.
They are near the second largest city of France, which also happens to be a very big support on the Mediterranean. Marseille has historically been very mixed, with very poor (colored) suburbs and also a scene of violent mafia.
Color= bad in the big city next door, whereas rich white = good in my town.
Plus specific case of Toulon, a city built around a military harbour, with ca. 80% french military voting NR.
It’s always the soldiers isn’t it. Police and soldiers. I wonder if it’s more that a fascist type of person is just naturally attracted to such jobs, or if it’s more a part of the enculturation those institutions condition people with that breeds fascism.
I’m pretty positive that fascist will be attracted to the military, which won’t care much as long as they get expendable humans.
For police, I get fasch would like the position, but clearly racism / authoritarianism should be basic disqualification.
The unspoken “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when it comes to those things makes that hard to screen for.
For context: the national rally, formerly national front was created by a former SS and and Le Pen, a lan proud of torturing Algerians during the decolonization war.
Their flame logo was a copy of a pro-mussolini group.
The man behind communication in Le Pen’s campaign is a neo-nazi, formerly of the most violent neonazi skinhead band (GUD).
They are not “just far-right” but hardcore fascists.
good.