French elections: Marine Le Pen seeks anti-immigrant voters
France will vote to elect its next president in less than a week. The far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is counting on her traditional base on the southeast coast, as well as former leftist working class voters hit hard by de-industrialisation.
France will vote to elect its next president in less than a week.
The far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is counting on her traditional base on the southeast coast, as well as former leftist working-class voters hit hard by de-industrialisation in the north.
But her party’s latest recruits are right-wing youth, attracted by populist, anti-immigrant websites.
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from Frejus, southeastern of France.
Published On 18 Apr 2017