France is not moving to the right, but the French right is undergoing a process of radicalisation

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Series Details 20.12.13
Publication Date 20/12/2013
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According to a poll carried out earlier in 2013, more than a third of French voters agree with the ideas of the Front National. Nonna Mayer finds that these results highlight a seeming 'droitisation' in France: the normalisation of the radical right as an established element of mainstream politics. By looking at the shift in values among traditional working-class voters, she attempts to explain changes in citizens’ perception of the radical right.

A survey published in February 2014, less than a hundred days before the European Parliament elections, showed that French citizens were less and less attracted by the EU project, with a quarter in favour of quitting the eurozone and reintroducing the franc.

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