Young, French, and voting hard-right
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The Times
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
French president Emmanuel Macron has called a snap election after his party was soundly defeated by the hard-right opposition in Sunday’s EU elections. The National Rally has been boosted by young voters, personified by the 28-year-old president of the party Jordan Bardella. So why are France’s youth shifting to the right?
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| 1:37.0 | This was a fairly kind of classic French political rally and that means that most small towns in France |
| 1:46.8 | will have a hall which is maybe used for sports which is used for events and so on. |
| 1:51.8 | So the capacity for a few hundred people, maybe a thousand or so. |
| 1:57.0 | Two weeks or so ago, Our Peter Conrady, a Sunday Times Europe editor, |
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