Marine Le Pen hails ‘historic victory’ as her party and allies win enough seats to form caucus just months ahead of presidential poll

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said her 2027 presidential campaign will be boosted after her anti-immigration party, the National Rally (RN), and its allies secured a record 14 seats in partial senate elections this weekend.

Le Pen called the results a “historic victory” and “major milestone” after her party cleared the 10-seat threshold to be able to form a senate group for the first time, following an indirect vote by local officials including mayors and councillors.

The party’s progress in the senate will allow them higher visibility and more funding in the second house of parliament ahead next spring’s presidential election. Le Pen is currently polling high as Emmanuel Macron prepares to step down after ten years in office.

  • rbb36@lemmy.world
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    As an American living in France: I came here because France is better than this.

    En tant qu’Américain vivant en France : je suis venu ici parce que la France est mieux que cela.

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      Tg américain de mes couilles. Occupe toi de ton cul avant de vouloir t’occuper de celui des autres. L’Américain progressiste qui fait de l’impérialisme a nous emmerdé avec ses opinions politiques alors que c’est un putain de touriste c’est non.

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    Any Frenchmen here to provide some context on this? Why are so many people voting for a criminal who is sponsored by the Kremlin?

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      Okay let me try.

      First, senatorial elections are indirect elections. Meaning that senators are elected from an electoral college mostly from local officials. The system is extremely complex and depends on the departement’s number of senators, itself roughly proportional to population. The senate as an institution is really controversial, since it has almost always been very right wing because France has a rural bias in terms of of sheer number of rural municipalities vs. urban and more progressive ones (overgeneralisation I know, but mostly true).

      Second, the “surge” is only 12 seats of a total of 178 up for election. Not a tsunami wave per se, but still worrying as the system tends to favor the traditional right wing, as it reflects a much larger proportion of far-right presence in local, departemental and regional councils.

      And third, because like everywhere else in Europe, nazi cunts from USA, Russia and Israel flood social media with propaganda to destroy democracy from the inside. And a lot of major media outlets are owned by fascist billionaires.

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        Russia and Israel played a large part in Trump getting elected and reelected. Fascism is a cancer that metastasizes

    • ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕚0𝕤@social.ggbox.fr
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      Main reason is that all mass media has been bought up by the billionaire class.

      These giga-rich assholes would rather support the far right than anything remotely left leaning because they’ll do anything to continue paying no tax, as they were essentially doing under Macron.

      When I was a kid, the Lepen were frowned upon and considered racist nuts by the media. Now they’re everywhere and totally normalized.

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      Cause some issue became too big to be ignore like immigration violence and security but being politically implied into thoses issue make you right wing so only the right wing can answer to voter concern. So ppl vote right wing. Pretty easy to understand. And by comparaison with the other political force PF the country u can do far worse

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      French senators are not elected directly by people, but by “great voters” instead. These “great voters” are every one who are on active mandate ; deputies, city councils members, etc. As french right wing have won a lot of elections for five years, they have now enough “great voters” to get few seats in the senate.

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      I remember the comie sabotage the effort of war cause at that time nazi and comie were allie