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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Marine Le Pen ousted him from the party four months ago. Indeed, after the Parti socialiste PS, Socialist Party universally withdrew from the two of six regions where the Front national FN, National Front led after the December 6 first-round results, it made a second-round victory of either Le Pen very unlikely.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. According to the extreme right-wing weekly, the moment Marine Le Pen took office coincided with the arrival of a swathe of new gay members which Minute finds regrettable. Socialist unity fell short in three northeastern regions, where the Front national came far closer to winning:.

“Front” denoted an umbrella coalition uniting a diverse group of lesbian and gay people despite their differences in class, age, gender, race and ethnicity. Notify me of new posts by email. His controversial views were hardly contained to LGBT rights, though. In the second round, however, Philippot still won just Closer , a French tabloid, published photos of him in Vienna at the end of with a man — purportedly his boyfriend.

Critics argue that its fierce anti-immigrant stand is anti-Muslim. Your email address will not be published. Rights groups fear that if the far right comes to power in under two weeks, laws put in place to protect LGBTQ people could be dismantled and violent attacks legitimised.

And indeed, the Front national did most poorly within the districts of the former region of Alsace, picking up larger margins in Lorraine. Even if it continues to take its characteristically wary line on migration. Bardella, 29, is seen as Le Pen’s protege and in was selected as the new leader of France’s far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ party the Rassemblement National (RN), formerly Front National – replacing Le Pen.

Motivated in part by the deadly Islamic extremist attacks at home and at a Florida gay nightclub, a growing bloc of traditionally left-leaning gay voters has embraced far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, leader of the once-fringe National Front party.