It was with gravity that Anne Hidalgo, on Wednesday, June 19, analyzed the political state of affairs, 10 days after Emmanuel Macron’s dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale, and fewer than three weeks earlier than the doable arrival of the far-right Rassemblement Nationwide (RN) to energy: “I’m the mayor of a metropolis stuffed with hope, able to combat in opposition to those that want to see its humanist legacy pushed away from it.”
Firstly of a press convention dedicated to the group of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, the Paris mayor made some extent of emphasizing that, “Paris will all the time be a rampart in opposition to the onslaught of hatred, a beacon of humanist values and freedom. (…) On this metropolis, the far proper has no place. It has its lowest scores right here. I am delighted about that.”
The Paris mayor’s pleasure in embodying this cultural exception is underpinned by conventional electoral ends in the capital, the place the RN has by no means made any vital inroads. Within the European elections, the capital and its inside suburbs have been the one departments in mainland France to not have positioned Jordan Bardella’s get together within the lead. Though up 1 level on the 2019 European elections (7.2%) with 8.5% of the vote, the Parisian RN record completed in sixth place, a good distance from the 31.3% achieved nationally by the RN.
It was additionally far behind Raphaël Glucksmann, backed by the Socialists, who got here out on prime in Paris with 22.9% of the vote. Subsequent got here Valérie Hayer’s record for the presidential camp (17.7%) and Manon Aubry’s radical left La France Insoumise (16.8%). Including the RN’s rating to that of Eric Zemmour’s Reconquête!, the far proper obtained a complete of 14.5%. Zemmour’s record, carried by Marion Maréchal within the European elections, recorded virtually the identical rating in Paris (5.9%) as in the remainder of the nation (5.5%).
Paris, a pink-green island in a sea of brown. Solely three polling stations – out of 902 – positioned the RN within the lead, within the 12th, 13th and 16th arrondissements. This got here as no “shock” to Florent Gougou, teacher-researcher at Sciences Po Grenoble: “The RN has clearly strengthened in its strongholds, and has made little or no progress, and even stagnated within the locations the place it’s weak. The RN is structurally weak in Paris as a result of metropolis’s sociology. Paris has a excessive focus of residents with a really excessive stage of training and populations of immigrant origin from Africa, two segments of the inhabitants not very hostile to immigration. In the present day, that is nonetheless a crucial (however not all the time ample) situation for voting for RN.”
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