Le Pen hopes that voting in the French region will give her a taste of power

French voters go to polling stations for regional elections on Sunday. This may allow the far-right Marine Le Pen National Assembly to taste the taste of power before next year’s national elections. By then, she is expected to become Main challenger The current President Emmanuel Macron.

Opinion polls show that RN will lead 6 out of 13 French European regions in the first round of voting, although mutual transactions between parties before the second round of voting on June 27 may exclude the party from being excluded. All regions except the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.

despite this, Success on the French Riviera The second round, if achieved under the leadership of RN candidate Thierry Mariani, will be the first time the anti-immigration party has won the French region.

“This Sunday, you will have a historic opportunity to change the government that this country desperately needs,” Le Pen Say on twitter After election meetings across France.

Due to the weakening of the left and the center-right now split between traditional Republicans and Macron supporters, Le Pen may perform well in the final result, even if RN’s share in the first round of voting does not exceed 28% achieved in 2015.

Mugitaba Rahman, European managing director of the consulting firm Eurasia Group, said that Le Pen’s victory in the region will be “a major event in French political history. The still big place sympathized with the Nazi Vichy regime in 1944″.

Managing areas like Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur with more than 4 million inhabitants and large cities like Marseille and Nice will give Le Pen “unprecedented grandstanding and trouble in the next 10 months before the first round of the competition. The opportunity to “presidential elections”-and issued a warning that Le Pen’s victory over Macron in 2022 is no longer unimaginable, he said.

The regional and departmental committees voted by the French have limited powers, mainly in transportation and schools. Although voting is an important indicator of national political trends, it is expected that the turnout rate is very low.

The polling organization Ipsos predicts that the turnout rate will only reach about 41%. “The French fully think about other things,” Ipsos’ Brice Teinturier said in a webinar last week. “We are coming out of the pandemic… The economic outlook is getting better.”

But the low turnout rate and public opinion polls show that voters are more concerned about crime, immigration and unemployment than Covid-19, which may help Le Pen leave his mark.

“Abstentions help the most motivated voting groups, that is, usually extreme,” Macron’s ally and modern Democratic Party leader François Beru told LCI TV.