Aurore Bergé, a close Macron ally and former minister, hinted the Front populaire would favour the growth of radical Islam.
Their manifesto would amount to ‘immigrationisme‘, Macron further said on Wednesday (18 June) – a new word used extensively by the far right to mean uncontrolled immigration – and “other mad ideas such as changing one’s sex administratively”.
Mathieu Gallard, a pollster, told Euractiv, it was surprising that “Renaissance is so much more vocal against the Left, which, according to polls, isn’t its principal threat”.
He said ostracising the left could backfire under the current two-round legislative voting system because, should Renaissance and RN candidates face off in the second round, “Renaissance will need the left-wing electorate” to swing it against the far right.
Evidence from European elections patterns, which have been emerging recently, also show voter abstention was the highest among Renaissance (42%) and the left (36%) supporters, while it stood at 28% for RN.
Higher turnout rates for the snap elections, as pollsters predict, may serve the left coalition well – and ultimately give Renaissance a brand-new problem to worry about, with 11 days to go before the first round of votes.
[Edited by Zoran Radosavljevic]
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