Vote Bardela you scored zero. His hometown won’t vote for him.
Voters in the suburbs Saint Denis from Paris – where many immigrants and Muslims live – they fear the rise of the far right, but also resent his presidency Emmanuel Macron.
Saint-Denis – the hometown of far-right leader Jordan Bardela – is one of Paris’ most populous suburbs, where almost one in three residents are immigrants.
Barring a major disruption, the Saint-Denis constituency will remain firmly on the left of the political spectrum.
The left alliance
The member of the Communist Party Stephane Peu supported by a broad left-wing coalition that includes his own party, the Radical Left Movement Unsubmissive France by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Socialists and the Greens.
Two years ago, that alliance helped him comfortably win re-election, with almost 80 percent of the vote in a second round against a candidate who supported centrist President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron is letting them down
Many residents said they were offended by key legislation passed under Macron’s presidency, including a bill to combat “Islamic separatism”, which critics say stigmatizes minorities, and the decision to ban abayas, long dresses used by some Muslim women in schools.
The most outspoken critics of the measures put in place under Macron came from the France Unbowed (LFI) movement Mélenchonwho has repeatedly spoken out against what he considers to be Islamophobic policies.
That stance may be bearing fruit: around 62 percent of Muslim voters chose France Unbowed candidates in the European elections in early June, according to an IFOP poll. The LFI won more than 50% of the vote, compared to less than 10% nationally.
The “controversial” bill
The bill contains legal tools to expand the principle of secularism in France, which bans public officials from wearing overt religious symbols such as the Muslim headscarf and introduces stricter controls on foreign donations to religious organizations. Macron proposed the legislation in 2020 as France suffered a series of attacks by Islamist groups.
While Mélenchon’s entire “France Unbowed” group voted against the “anti-separatist” bill, the majority of communist deputies, including deputy Saint-Denis Peu, abstained.
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