The leader far-right Marine Le Pen gain strength like “natural alternative” to Emmanuel Macron in the French presidency ahead of the 2027 elections, experts estimate, in a European context favorable to far-right parties.
For the first time, more French believe that Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) does not represent a danger to democracy (45%) than the opposite (41%), revealed on Thursday a poll by the Verian institute for the newspaper Le Monde.
The far-right leader has already arrived at the second round in the elections presidential of 2017 and 2022, who lost to Macron with 33.9% and 41.45% of votes, after years of a strategy focused on free yourself from ultra aura of his party.
“The ideas of the extreme right they spread and spread in the big partiess, as we see in France or Germany,” says Gilles Ivaldi, political scientist at Cevipof. The growing porosity occurs especially with the traditional right.
The great favorite
Sarah Proust, socialist councilor in Paris, points out a “wave” at the European level. Several countries in the European Union, including Italy, Hungary and Finland, tThey have far-right parties in power. The Netherlands could follow in their footsteps.
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Le Pen’s party appears in the polls as the great favorite in France for the elections to the European Parliament next June, which will be held months before a trial against the leader and his training for embezzling European public funds.
In this context, is he heading towards the presidency of France in 2027, for which Macron will no longer be eligible? “He can gain from the nature of his support, his catch-all electoral structure that resembles that of a government party,” explains Dabi. Adélaïde Zulfikarpasic, from the BVA pollster, warns however that “his defeat is still possible”, Since the “demonization” of his party “is not total.