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The builder who has been working on my house in Burgundy will be voting for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally on Sunday in the first round of the French parliamentary election. So will the electrician. I haven’t asked the plumber, but I suspect I know where his vote will go, given that his assistant is voting for Le Pen. My neighbour, a farmer, is voting Le Pen, as is a teacher acquaintance. The local policeman is also voting Le Pen.
‘What do I think of Macron?’ retorted the electrician. ‘Put it this way, he’s not my friend’
It’s not that surprising in this neck of the woods. The National Rally romped to victory in the Yonne department in the recent European elections, winning 41.4 per cent of the vote. Next best was Valerie Hayer, Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party candidate, who came away with a modest 12.5
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