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. 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.
Along the streets you can see everything from halal butchers, shops selling traditional Muslim costumes, to young people dragged to the suburbs by rent prices. Bardella, who describes himself as an anti-immigration politician, emphasized that it was his childhood experiences that led him to want to enter politics. “I felt like a foreigner in my own country. I experienced the Islamization of my area,” he said.
Despite being in the suburb where he grew up, Bardella is not counting on the votes of Saint-Denis residents. According to Politico, unless something changes, the Saint-Denis constituency will remain on the left of the political spectrum. Stéphane 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 leftist movement France Insubmissa, the Socialists and the Greens.