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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
National
Alison Hird

How France's far-right National Rally finally hooked the women's vote

Marine Le Pen is greeted by women supporters in her fiefdom of Henin-Beaumont, north of France on 9 June, 2024. AFP - FRANCOIS LO PRESTI

It came as little surprise when Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) won the 9 June European parliamentary elections in France, but the number of women backing the anti-immigration party – up 10 percent since 2019 – is a turnabout. Have women found a voice in the RN or are they, as some feminists suggest, being duped?

Almost as many women as men voted for RN candidate Jordan Bardella in the European polls – 30 percent compared to 32 percent, according to a recent Ipsos survey.

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