“Since July 7, the issue of racism seems to have vanished again” | EUROtoday

HAS the announcement of the outcomes of the primary spherical of legislative elections [le 30 juin]the entry of the acute proper to energy by way of the poll field was posed for the primary time in our nation as a extremely possible speculation. Per week later and regardless of worrying scores, the National Rally (RN) was relegated to 3rd place due to a republican entrance nonetheless introduced as definitively useless.

France has drawn from its historical past the strengths for a surge: these of the rejection of racism and xenophobia. Indeed, throughout the inter-round elections, political and media leaders appeared to do not forget that the far proper was racist and xenophobic, as evidenced by its program, its candidates or the hatred unleashed in phrases and actions by the prospect of its potential victory.

The electoral turnaround that this discourse – massively mobilised – helped to impress reveals within the background the futility of the discourses – media, political, mental – held increasingly more noisily since Jean-Marie Le Pen's accession to the second spherical of the presidential election in 2002 and, much more so, since Marine Le Pen's accession to the presidency of the National Front (FN) in 2011.

These speeches defined that it was essential to cease denouncing the racism of the FN (which turned the RN in 2018), since this didn’t assist to scale back its scores and that the truth of this racism was questionable because the RN claimed to be present process its republican transformation.

Against the scapegoat logic

On the opposite, the Grail was imagined to reside within the programmatic critique of the FN/RN, and within the understanding of the motivations of voters struck by social issues that the left – blinded by an anti-racism main it to function a substitution of the determine of the employee by that of the immigrant – now not needed to resolve or now not knew the right way to establish for the better good thing about the acute proper.

In a extra superior model, avoidance has change into following. This is how Gérald Darmanin launched an “immigration” legislation claiming to reply to the considerations of the French concerning migration. To what impact? ​​According to [l’institut de sondage] Elabe, between May and November 2023, the share of French individuals who agree with the concept there are too many immigrants in France jumped by 7 factors. This phenomenon probably fueled the electoral momentum of the RN throughout the European elections, throughout which the social gathering campaigned by benefiting from the legitimization of its scapegoat immigrant logic by the federal government itself.

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