BBC OS Conversations: Far-right voters in Europe

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🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Politics in Europe took a shift to the right following the recent European parliamentary elections, with far-right parties making gains in several countries, most notably France. The size of victory for the opposition National Rally Party led President Macron to call a snap national election. We bring together two men who support Marine Le Pen’s far-right party to discuss what’s informing their views. A major concern, they say, is fear about crime and security, which causes some people to carry knives.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Krupaparty and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:06.0	In BBC OS conversations we bring people together to share their experiences.
0:11.4	This time after the recent European parliamentary elections, it's people who voted for political parties on the far right.
0:21.0	As elections led European politics to shift more to the right this week,
0:26.0	we've been hearing from French, Italian and Swedish supporters on what informs their votes
0:31.5	and the hostility their views sometimes encounter.
0:35.2	We were even called like Nazis and people calling us racist and everything.
0:39.8	And still it's in the parliament we had close to a fifth of the voters voting for us.
0:45.8	The party talks about issues that others don't really dare to talk about, such as immigration.
0:58.5	Far right parties had reason to celebrate several successes at the recent European parliamentary elections coming top in countries such as Italy and Austria and second in Germany the most populous country in the European Union.
1:07.0	The next major power on the continent is France and the outcome there really did shake things up. The anti-immigration
1:15.0	party known as Rassamblement National or National Rally got more than double the
1:20.4	votes over Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance.
1:23.8	The president immediately said that national politics needed clarity around what people
1:28.4	wanted and announced a snap election for the country to take place in a few weeks.
1:34.2	For our first conversation, my colleague James Reynolds spoke to two national rally supporters.
1:39.6	Tony is originally from France but lives now in the UK and business owner Yannick is from the south of France.
1:46.4	My life is okay. I'm working a lot like most of the time I work a lot, paying huge tax in France.
1:53.0	If you are kind of lucky to have a nice place to live and the good hour to leave, you don't face so many problems, but if you go to some city, some big city with your family, with your friend, you begin to be
2:05.3	worried about what can happen in the street. You have to take a look at what is around you now in
2:09.5	France. If you have an argument with someone in the street you cannot do like before and just
2:16.8	fix the problem with war then it will be fine.
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