President Emmanuel Macron’s promise to win over far-right voters in France is faltering
FILE – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen reacts as she meets supporters and journalists after the release of projections based on the actual vote count in select constituencies , Sunday, June 30, 2024 in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
By JOHN LEICESTER, SAMUEL PETREQUIN and WILLIAM JARRETT – Associated Press
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PARIS (AP) — The date was May 7, 2017. Addressing cheering supporters, the newly elected leader of France, Emmanuel Macron, made a promise that now, in his waning 18 months as president, lies in tatters.
The rival that Macron defeated that day, Marine Le Pen, had secured 10,638,475 votes. They were nowhere near enough for the far-right leader to win. But they were too numerous for Macron to ignore, a best-ever watershed at the ballot box for Le Pen’s once-ostracized National Front party that she inherited from her Holocaust-denying father.
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Poverty worsened under Macron
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Showing the correlation
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Parallels with Trump are apparent
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National Rally establishes strongholds
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Voters hunger for change
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