“For the RN electorate, competence matters less than life experience” | EUROtoday

Sociologist Félicien Faury met quite a few right-wing and far-right voters as a part of a subject survey, carried out within the south-east of France, between 2016 and 2022, from which he drew the e-book Ordinary voters. Investigation into the normalization of the far proper (Threshold, 2024). He analyzes the potential affect of Jordan Bardella’s delegitimization speech on his voters.

Is the notion of the competence of a political chief decisive for the voters of the National Rally (RN)?

It was for the right-wing individuals I met: the presumed incompetence of Marine Le Pen typically got here as much as justify their not voting for RN, regardless of their settlement on immigration. On the opposite hand, within the RN voters, competence counts lower than life expertise. There is a really robust mistrust in direction of the political world as an entire, typically taken as a homogeneous complete, and the place the principle criticism is that of the absence of expertise of the identical expertise because the French. “Those who govern us”, to make use of the expression used, “do not live like us, do not have the same concerns”. There is consciousness of a category distance between “our world” and that of politicians.

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