French women voters swing sharply to far right

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1. > In 2019, 25 percent of men and 21 percent of women voted for National Rally — in line with traditional patterns. This year, however, the poll found that 33 percent of women had voted for Le Pen’s far-right party, outpacing 30 percent of men. That’s a striking 12 percentage point increase from women voters over five years.

2. So men vote for nationalist parties in the beginning and after nationalist parties turn into lolbertarians women join in?

3. Is this a case of people genuinely turning to the whole far right message or the right merely expressing one or two policies that the other parties shy away from?

4. Again and again. If popular parties or left parties don’t actually talk openly about Islam people will flock to the right until they are in power.

5. very good

6. I wonder what might have led all these people to this? Life’s greatest mystery

7. Women as a group make or break a government as usual. Elections should be interesting.

8. Tres bien French ladies, you’re doing the right thing for your country.

9. That’s completely expected. Left parties all failed to tackle illegal immigration and the problems Islamists are generating in Europe. It came to the point that me as a Trans and Jewish person feel safer in Eastern Europe than in Western countries that usually were more accepting of both groups.

10. Who could have guessed. I wonder why that is.

11. The other thing the article doesn’t mention is transgender rights and proposals by the left to bring in self ID. Rightly or wrongly, agree or disagree, there is a growing backlash spearheaded by women campaigners against transgender rights across Europe which they argue go against womens sex based rights.

    The book ‘Transmania’ written by two women campaigners has gone to the top of Amazons best seller list, helped in part by the Paris Mayors office banning billboards advertising it.

    The RN along with the Republicans were behind a recent bill severely restricting access to puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to minors.

12. Ok. Like all over the Europe. The question is why.

    There are two options, either right promised them something they like or if they voted left earlier, the left didn’t fulfill its promises and it’s a form of “FU” to the left.

    Either way, we have democracy and it’s one of its downsides – a party you don’t like may gain support/win an election. And there’s nothing wrong with it. We can’t really do anything about it – banning far-right would be the opposite to democratic.

    I’m not a supporter of far-right, btw.

    Edit: spelling

13. These parties are not even far right. Let’s be clear far right is a different beast all together. These are nationalist center right parties that focus on a few hot topics.

    Immigration isn’t even a discussion. You cannot have tax funded school and Healthcare while importing the developing world. You bankrupt your economy its a nonstarter.

    Globalism is likely a huge negative but major corporations love it. No tariffs and cheap labor is key to these companies. Tariffs and strong economic policy without trade deals enables economic growth from the middle class.

    Center right, left and true center parties of the past 30+ years hate you. They want money and power. Apple gets to use slave labor instead of you. Interest rates can be 1% because banks and companies benefit not you. It bankrupted the west.

14. All authoritarian right wing parties in history start out as “we just want to protect you from the <insert group here>”

15. Read the first 5 words again and tell me it won’t happen the other way around

16. [A member of the Rassemblement National was accused by his 12-year-old stepdaughter of raping her. Placed in police custody he confessed to the facts](https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/manche-un-conseiller-regional-rn-mis-en-examen-pour-viols-de-sa-belle-fille-26-01-2021-8421420.php)

    There are enough political parties in France wanting to regulate immigration. But RN keeps pretending to be full of perfect citizens and accusing all migrants of crimes they commit themselves.