It is one of France’s most populous suburbs and home to Jordan Bardella, the far-right party’s candidate for prime minister. In Saint-Denis, one in three residents is an immigrant, and there is a “visceral rejection” of the National Union party.
“There is an intuitive rejection of the National Union here. The candidate [Jordan Bardella] “You can’t put your face on your posters for fear of reprisals. I myself have been attacked when people saw the colour blue on my leaflets and associated me with the party,” said Louis-Oxil Maillard, a candidate for the conservative party “The Republicans”, the newspaper quoted. Political.
The streets are lined with everything from halal butchers to shops selling traditional Muslim clothing to young people driven to the suburbs by rent prices. Bardella, who describes himself as an anti-immigrant politician, said his childhood experiences led him to want to enter politics. “I felt like a foreigner in my own country. I experienced the Islamization of my neighborhood,” he said.
Despite being in the suburb where he grew up, Bardella is not counting on the votes of the people of Saint-Denis. According to the newspaper Politico, unless some changes occur, the constituency of Saint-Denis will remain left of the political spectrum. Stephane Peu, a member of the Communist Party, enjoys the support of a broad left-wing alliance that includes his own party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical left-wing movement France Insubmissa, the Socialists and the Greens.