An alliance with Reconquest would strengthen Marine Le Pen’s National Rally ahead of a snap election.

Only a day after French President Emmanuel Macron called a high-stakes snap election, the country’s two leading far-right forces explored the possibility of teaming up against him in a showdown that stands to prove crucial for the future of both France and the EU.

Macron called a legislative election on Sunday night after the far-right National Rally trounced his liberal Renaissance party in the EU election, by a margin of 31.4 percent to 14.6 percent. While the French president is gambling he can stem the surge of nationalist, anti-immigration rightwingers in a national election, his rivals are testing the waters for a united front.

Marion Maréchal, the lead candidate for the Reconquest party during Sunday’s EU election, on Monday met with the far-right National Rally’s presidential candidate, her aunt Marine Le Pen, and the movement’s President Jordan Bardella to discuss a potential alliance.

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    5 months ago

    You don’t say. They aren’t subtle about much. They are barley containing their hate speech below the legally permissible threshold.

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      5 months ago

      Their campaign clip explicitly said that they were against « LGBT activism ».

      Not even trying to hide behind excuses. They explicitly think that LGBT rights should be fought against.