With 13.2 million votesThe far-right Marine Le Pen succeeded in electing 41.4 percent of the voters. National Regrouping (RN, formerly the National Front), the party he has led since 2011 and which his father founded in 1972, best result in history. In this presidential election, RN has expanded both its electoral base and its establishment in the region. Power in clear advance in French politics. However, this electoral power, which has grown year by year, has not yet succeeded in breaking its target. political isolation. Your ceiling of choice has a name and republic frontas France Cord sanitaire is known against the extreme right.
When Le Pen took over the then Front National in 2011, he made a solemn promise: “This moment will mark the irresistible rise to power of our movement.” That’s when he started his campaign. “demonization“, to whiten the ultra message to make it more digestible. But the power is difficult: he caresses it, but does not reach it. French two-round majority electoral system When that republican front, which consists of concentrating the votes on a single candidate to prevent the far right from coming to power, always leaves it at its doorstep when it moves.
Northern and Mediterranean basin
Le Pen’s electoral power is mainly located in the country’s Mediterranean basin in four northern regions and hexagons: Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) and Occitania. Industry, agriculture and mining areas with common problems: factory closures, high unemployment, lack of investment, lack of infrastructure.
But despite this powerful implantation, it has little power. In 2014, three years after starting his new journey, 1,500 councilors and fifteen small and medium-sized mayors in these districts. Among them Bezier, town of 75,000 inhabitants south of Montpellier, which won independently Robert Menard Co-founder of Reporters Without Borders, but with support from FN. Added to these municipalities in 2020 perpinyafrom his hand Louis AliotFormer partner of Le Pen.
The capital of French Catalonia is its biggest jewel because with 62 regional councilors and 358 regional councilors, the far right does not hold power in the country. none of the 13 districts. Last year’s June elections were a fiasco for the party that wanted to take control of the capital PACA. Marseille. Le Pen’s candidate, Thierre Mariani, despite getting more votes in the first round, lost as the left-wing candidate pulled out of the triangle to support conservative Renaud Muselier, thus preventing RN from winning his first district.
No parliamentary group
With 577 deputies, the far right is also an insignificant force in the French National Assembly, with only seven representatives, half of what is required to have its own parliamentary group, obtained after the 2017 presidential election. Two years later with a different electoral system, 2018 The party, which has since been renamed RN, Power with the most votes in European electionsreceived 34% of the votes.
And while Le Pen has so far failed in his goal of pushing the far right beyond the twenty cities he controls, his success Expanded electoral bases and built his image. But the underlying ideology of the party remains the same: anti-immigrant, nationalist and anti-European.
Jean-Yves Camus, a political scientist specializing in nationalist movements in Europe, describes Marine Le Pen’s leadership in the pages of ‘Libération’.pragmatic front-line“but he warns that power will remain unattainable “as long as it is not a proportional system and renounces some of its foundations, such as national preference.” An implantable turn for now. Then the journey continues.
Source: Informacion
