The far-right has sent a shockwave through France's political establishment, winning a historic number of seats in Sunday's parliamentary elections with an unexpected surge.
Marine Le Pen has called for banning Muslims from wearing headscarves in public and drastically reducing immigration from outside Europe.Macron's centrist Together grouping won the most seats with 245 but fell 44 short of an absolute majority, leaving it unable to pass laws without the help of other parties. Macron won re-election as president against Le Pen in April but is now shorn of his legislative authority.
"It is shocking. There was always an expectation somehow the National Rally would not get itself into a position of power — this is an unprecedented situation," said Marta Lorimer, an expert in far-right European politics at the London School of Economics.Not since 1986, when the electoral rules were briefly changed, has a far-right party elected members of Parliament on such a scale.
"There’s been a pretty heavy collapse of the mainstream, and that’s made it more possible for the far right to creep in," she added.Some members of his party were criticized ahead of the election for suggesting that a vote for the left-wing alliance was in some cases worse than voting for Le Pen’s radical nationalists —
Those who did vote were seemingly unenthusiastic about by Macron's new government and the fact that a leader long derided for an aloof and distant approach to politics was again accused of going missing at a key moment."One of the reasons he tanked so badly was because he didn’t campaign," Murray said.
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