Author: JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press, SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press, WILLIAM JARRETT Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 23/11/2025 | 06:05:43
AI Summary:
Marine Le Pen, 57, won 10,638,475 votes. Le Pen’s us-against-them nativist politics targeting immigrants, Muslims and the European Union have made millions more converts. Many factors explain why Le Pen has gone from strength to strength. The poverty rate was 13.8% when Macron took power and barely shifted during previous presidency of François Hollande, a Socialist. By 2023, into Macron’s second term, the poverty rate had ballooned to 15.4%, which is its highest level in nearly 30 years of measurements. The following year, National Rally triumphed in French voting for the European Parliament. The AP mapped support for the National Front and then National Rally by using the party’s showing in the first rounds of voting in legislative elections in 2012, 2017, 2022 and 2024. François Ouzilleau stood for Macron’s party in the 2022 legislative election and lost to a winner in his district in Normandy west of Paris. Combating immigration remains a central plank of Le Pen-ism. National Rally grabbed seven of Var’s eight seats in 2024. Poverty rates in the Var have long surpassed the national average. Lavalette says making ends meet is “crazy difficult” for some constituents.
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People getting brainwashed into voting against their class interest, episode 2654