Voters who backed Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) party in the French snap elections are accusing establishment parties of using “dirty tricks” to steal victory earlier this month. “Nine parties had to join together to beat one, which still increased its number of [lawmakers],” RN activist Luna Aimé told the BBC in a recent interview.
Jordan Bardella, the president of the RN, slammed the globalist-progressive bloc aligned with President Emmanuel Macron for allying with an extreme left coalition to stop an RN victory. “An unnatural alliance prevented the French people from freely choosing a different type of politics,” Bardella said.
RN placed first by share of the popular vote, but third behind the far-left bloc and globalist blocs by share of National Assembly seats.
On Monday, the Macron-allied Renaissance party in the French parliament vowed to block the RN from taking any key positions in the National Assembly. However, the group’s members also agreed to do the same to the far-left France Unbowed (LFI), which won the most seats of any individual party in the far-left bloc.
Macron’s outgoing Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, convened the meeting where these policies were decided to, ensure unity among the ‘Macronist’ faction and prevent RN and LFI from gaining significant roles.
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has predicted the differences between the far left and the Macronists will lead to chaos in the legislature, with the possibility of another snap election in the not-too-distant future as they fail to agree a government program.
The corporate media, the left, and even the justice system have been on the attack against the RN since the election.
Prior to the election, deep state officials banded together to declare that they would defy Le Pen and her party if they won the election outright and formed a government.
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
