New far-right intake includes police officers, a cleaner and a delivery driver as French president loses control of parliament
Le Pen, who came second to Macron in April’s presidential election after promising to cut VAT on fuel and ban the Muslim headscarf from all public spaces, triumphantly welcomed her new party group at the national assembly on Wednesday. With 89 new members, it is the highest number of far-right legislators in the French parliament in modern history.
The new intake of far-right members of parliament included a significant number of local councillors who proved that the far right had successfully expanded at grassroots level across France, beyond its heartlands in the post-industrial north east and its stronghold in the south. There was a surge for the far-right in the south-west and in Gironde, in some areas traditionally held by the left.
A 29-year-old delivery driver, Jorys Bovet, was elected for the far right in the Allier in central France. “I’m from the real world. I’ve been working since I was 16,” he told the local paper, La Montagne. “I can see the cost of living crisis, everyone is taxed, people have had enough.”
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