France is one of those countries very similar to the US. Once you leave the metropolitan cities like Lyon or Paris...general feelings are more conservative in nature.
The problem with Le Pen and her National Rally party....they can’t construct a theme which draws the urban folks or the heavily-influenced socialists.
RE: Once you leave the metropolitan cities like Lyon or Paris...general feelings are more conservative in nature.
Marseille is almost 1/5th Muslim. If we define “conservative” by this demographic, no thanks.
That’s because genuine racism — namely anti-Semitism and Holocaust denialism characterizes the party’s heritage. Not to mention rabid secularism. Marine Le Pen’s highly charismatic and attractive niece, Marion Marechal Le Pen, has dropped the name “Le Pen” and simply goes by Marion Marechal — in an effort to distance herself from her Holocaust-denying grandfather.
She is becoming a rival of sorts to her aunt. She is also more pro-Catholic than Marine and appeals to a wide swath of people normally alienated from French politics. Steve Bannon speaks especially highly of her.