one hundred days later – Three months after the second of the municipal elections and their coming to power in around sixty municipalities, the new RN town halls are stamping their style. Obviously more octagon than culture
There were the first gestures, essentially symbolic, such as the removal of European flags from the pediments of certain town halls newly conquered by the RN in the last municipal elections. Three months after the second round which saw the RN come to power in around sixty municipalities, bringing their total number to more than 70, these new mayors were able to begin to stamp their style. Particularly in terms of socio-cultural policy, like the mayor of Carpentras (Vaucluse) who approved an already very symbolic municipal subsidy of 3,000 for family planning.
New directions that the National Observatory of the Far Right (Oned) did not fail to scrutinize, which launched a collaborative variation on the new RN town halls in order to compile measures which would be as many markers of the far right, which has taken control of many municipalities for the first time.
Shot of firedamp on the unions
“These are often medium-sized municipalities, sometimes small, but which are always laboratories of the extreme right,” says 20 MinutesThomas Portes, president of the Observatory and LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis. “And these markers – cultural orientation, attacks against unions, against social and associative systems, or even the reception of foreign nationals, lists the elected official, have been identified in 30% to 35% of newly RN municipalities. HAS”
Starting with the new mayor of Carcassonne (Aude), Christophe Barthès, (…)
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