It is one of France’s most densely populated suburbs and the birthplace of Jordan Bardella, the far-right candidate for prime minister. In Saint-Denis, one in three residents is an immigrant and there is an “intuitive aversion” to the National Union party.
“There is an intuitive rejection of the National Union here. Candidate [Jordan Bardella] You cannot put your face on your posters for fear of reprisals. I myself have been attacked when people saw the color blue in my leaflets and associated me with the party,” said Louis-Auxille Maillard, a candidate for the conservative Republicans party, 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.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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