National Rally leader is closing gap on Emmanuel Macron in polls for this month’s presidential election
poll alarmed Macron’s camp by showing her reaching 47% against his 53%, the narrowest margin yet and far closer than when he defeated her with 66% in 2017.
The presidential election campaign has been the most far-right in France’s modern history. In addition to Le Pen, another far-right candidate emerged: the former TV pundit, who has convictions for inciting racial hatred.
Le Pen’s key themes – concerns over insecurity and crime, a feeling of decline and social inequality, and her linking those issues to immigration and a percieved threat of Islamism – have taken up more space in the public debate in recent years. Jordan Bardella takes a selfie with Le Pen supporters at a March meeting in Cogolin, southern France.Raphaël Llorca, a communications consultant at the Fondation Jean Jaurès thinktank and the author of a book on Le Pen and Zemmour,, said the tone of Le Pen’s campaign was deliberately different this year.
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