France’s National Rally has sought to style itself a defender of women’s rights — partly by attacking its traditional bogeyman: immigration.

France’s National Rally has sought to style itself a defender of women’s rights — partly by attacking its traditional bogeyman: immigration.

Europe’s far-right voters have long been predominantly men, but French women are now bucking that trend ahead of a high-stakes election that could usher in France’s first far-right government in recent history.

Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally is tipped to win the most votes in a two-round snap election on June 30 and July 7 that could crush the liberal centrists of President Emmanuel Macron, and women are increasingly driving her party’s surging political fortunes as it seeks to position itself in the mainstream.

On EU election day this month, the National Rally came first with a stunning 31 percent of the French vote, up from 23 percent in the 2019 EU election.

The most eye-catching aspect of this swing to the far right concerned women voters, according to an election-day poll that OpinionWay carried out for the Les Echos newspaper.

    • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      i’m sorry, but I can’t bring myself to care about anti-american “racism” in europe. it might do the world some good tbh

        • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          that’s something you deal with on a case-by-case basis, not systemically.

            • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              3 months ago

              Mate, you got bullied ONCE, and then decided that meant “Immigration is an issue in France.”

              You are using something minorly shitty that happened as justification for an extremist policy position.

              And you’re calling me foolish.

                • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  The United States supports genocide and colonialism around the world relentlessly, and acts like it’s a crime against humanity when there is even the slightest pushback, even though they have never been held to account for any of their own crimes against humanity. I’m sorry if awareness of that fact caused you distress, it wasn’t my intention.

    • Wild Bill@midwest.socialEnglish
      46·
      3 months ago

      This is the entire reason for the European right-wing wave. Some like to pretend Europeans suddenly became racist as fuck, but look at the integration issues. Sweden is a shithole now, just like France, because of this. No doubt right-wing policies are extremist, but thank the lord they opened (some) people’s eyes to the problematic nature of mass immigration.

    • Beetschnapps@lemmy.worldEnglish
      611·
      3 months ago

      Camp fire for the saints…

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

      Edit: to point out that the comment demonstrating the worst parts of that book has 50 upvotes.

      While my pointing that out has negative downvotes.

      Then a later comment of mine mentioning how fucked up that mindset is… was upvoted… just like the original comment acting out that mindset…