“We are going to vote for the least worst,” resigns Laurence, a school canteen worker in the working-class district of Nangis. In her small town of Seine-et-Marne, the candidate of the New Popular Front may have won first place (39.06%) in the first round of legislative elections, at the level of the 4th electoral district, the National Rally (47.64%), which gained votes ahead of the candidate of the Republicans (28.01%). The result, in the second round, after the withdrawal of the left-wing list, its voters are called upon to block the RN “at any cost”.
“I would vote Republican without hesitation… It would be a first,” admits Daniel, a retired petrochemical worker and a student at the VKT from the start. He believes “the situation is serious” with the National Rally at the Gates of Power. “We want everything except the RN,” says Marvin, 21, appalled by the far-right party’s anti-immigration platform and its plans to discriminate against dual citizens.
In Mar-aux-Cures, a working-class district of Nanga, “disappointment has become a habit.” “We don’t feel like we’re voting for whoever we like, but we have to,” Lawrence concludes. “We have to remain a republic.”
Source: Le Parisien
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