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.
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.
Good luck with that, one thing you don’t mess with in France is equality