France’s populist party is on track to deliver a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron’s standing at home and abroad with record support in the European Parliament elections.
According to a study by consulting firm Portland Communications, saw Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) party is on track for its best ever result in June’s EU parliamentary elections, according to the Politico website.
The poll, which polled 1,034 people at the end of January, predicted that the National Rally would win 33 percent of the vote, far ahead of the neoliberal Ensemble. The coalition government, which includes Macron’s Renaissance Party, won just 14% of the vote.
Meanwhile, the Reconquist Party, led by populist debater Eric Zemmour, is on pace to win 6% of the vote, which would give the populist right wing 40% of the vote. This is likely to be a major blow to Macron, both domestically, where his control over parliament is already tenuous at best, and internationally, where he is seeking to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as Europe’s top leader. .
National Assembly president Jourdan Bardera commented on the election this week, describing it as a “midterm election” for President Emmanuel Macron. President Macron is in his second term a little less than halfway through his last term.
“We should make Macron’s Europe a minority, because what Brussels decides will hurt the French people. Energy prices, the end of agriculture, migration deals, it’s Brussels!” Bardella Said.
French populist Marine Le Pen takes the lead in race to replace President Macron https://t.co/ZJdTa2vXf8
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Similar sentiments were expressed last week by Marion Maréchal, a right-wing rising star and the niece of Marine Le Pen, who said the Reconquista party is part of Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s European Conservative and Reform Party (ECR). He announced that he would join the parliamentary coalition. Brothers of the Italian Party and the conservative Polish Law and Justice (PiS) party.
Maréchal, deputy leader of the anti-mass immigration Reconquista party, said the move to join the ECR “aims to overtake Emmanuel Macron’s Renewist faction and reduce the influence of centrists in the European Parliament.” said. ”
“We share a common vision of Europe in essential respects: fighting migration and Islamization, opposing Brussels centralism, respecting nations and their identities, and defending conservative values.” Scheer added.
A survey by Portland Communications shows that the biggest issue among French voters ahead of the election is the cost of living crisis caused mainly by coronavirus lockdown measures and the war in Ukraine. It also contributes to inflation and supply chain problems.
Immigration followed on the heels of the cost of living crisis, and the country was once again hit by Islamic terrorism and devastating BLM-style race riots after the police killing of a teenager of Algerian descent.
The survey was carried out amid tractor protests across France by farmers angered by strict environmental regulations at both national and EU level. Both Paris and Brussels have offered some concessions to farmers, but it appears farmers have no intention of backing down from the fight against environmental policies, with tractor blockades set to continue to dominate headlines in the run-up to the vote. It will be.
“A sharp shift to the right”—populist parties predicted to win in nine EU parliamentary elections https://t.co/55dYsysrZw
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