Sunday, June 30, 2024

Fox News Digital: French right in commanding position as 'fed up' voters prepare to send Macron message in elections

By SIMON CONSTABLE

FRANCE - When the French go to the polls this Sunday, the result will likely reflect an unprecedented move to the right in what could lead to the most conservative parliament since the country was liberated in WWII, experts say. 

The reasons come down to unhappiness with immigration, a weak economy, a cost-of-living crisis and dissatisfaction with the current centrist government, especially among younger voters.

"Right now, France is seeing its biggest shift to the right," Matthew Tyrmand, adviser to conservative political candidates and parties across Europe told Fox News Digital. "This is democracy at work—the people are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore." Read more here.

Emmanuel Macron
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Thursday, June 27, 2024

#FRANCE: Hot weather, heated Elections in Paris and London. @BatchelorShow @RealConstable, Occitanie

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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#FRANCE: Hot weather, heated Elections in Paris and London. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor, Simon Constable, Occitanie
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/26/general-election-live-sunak-starmer-farage/.

 Inauguration, dans les années 50, de la plaque commémorative en hommage à Raymond Luauté (1905-1945), militant communiste déporté, au numéro 86 rue de Bagnolet, XXe arrondissement, Paris, France. VLuautéCC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons


Friday, June 21, 2024

#France:The National Rally's 28 year old @J_Bardella. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow @FoxNews

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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At 28, Jordan Bardella shakes up French politics: 'People across France have woken up'

FRANCE — Jordan Bardella is shaking things up in French politics. He’s young. He’s handsome like a male fashion model, and since 2022, he’s been president of the National Rally, the new name for the National Front party founded in 1972 by controversial far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. The party has moved on from its far-right roots, becoming more of a populist party under Le Pen's daughter, Marine. 

"Jordan Bardella, the right-wing 28-year-old without a college degree, could be the French prime minister in a few weeks," says Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former adviser to former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and adviser to other European politicians. "This is great news for the French people that have suffered relentless attacks on their culture by left-wing Macron and the millions of migrants he imported."

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#France: Driving with calves in the road. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow @FOXNews Occitanie.

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#France: Driving with calves in the road. Simon Constable, Occitanie.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/calf-police-ram-car-beau-lucy-staines-officers-b1165010.html 




Sunday, June 16, 2024

Fox News Digital: At 28, Jordan Bardella shakes up French politics: 'People across France have woken up'

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

FRANCE — Jordan Bardella is shaking things up in French politics. He’s young. He’s handsome like a male fashion model, and since 2022, he’s been president of the National Rally, the new name for the National Front party founded in 1972 by controversial far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. The party has moved on from its far-right roots, becoming more of a populist party under Le Pen's daughter, Marine. 

"Jordan Bardella, the right-wing 28-year-old without a college degree, could be the French prime minister in a few weeks," says Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former adviser to former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and adviser to other European politicians. "This is great news for the French people that have suffered relentless attacks on their culture by left-wing Macron and the millions of migrants he imported." Read more here.

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