France votes today. If the opinion polls are correct Marine Le Pen’s National Rally will be the big winner in the first round of the parliamentary elections. A poll on Friday had the NR on 36.5 per cent – seven and a half per cent ahead of the left-wing Popular Front coalition, with Emmanuel Macron’s centrist union third on 20.5 per cent of the vote share.
The polls were spot on at the start of the month, predicting a landslide victory for the NR in the European elections that duly transpired – so it seems probable that once again one in three voters will cast their ballot for a party that was formerly called the National Front. Its former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is still alive but no longer capable of managing his own affairs after suffering a heart attack in 2023. Earlier this year he was placed under the legal protection of his three daughters: Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marine.
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