In France, restrictive measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic led to a change in the association of political forces. According to recent opinion polls in the newspapers L’Opinion and Le Parisien, French President Emmanuel Macron in an election for the Presidency of France would receive 23%-24% in the first round of the elections compared to 26%-27% of Marine Le Pen, while in the second round he would receive a marginal 52% against Marine Le Pen’s 48% respectively.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, mindful that the public’s patience with existing containment measures has begun to run out, is currently resisting pressure for a third universal quarantine.
French President Christophe Castaner’s close associate in a recent article in Le Parisien newspaper said a universal quarantine poses the risk of civil disobedience by a large part of the public.
In such a case, Marine Le Pen would gain a referendum lead over the French President. Marine Le Pen, having now gained the image of the legitimate and serious challenger to the presidency in the 2022 elections, is following the path of responsibility, leaving her colleagues to support the outraged strata of citizens who are tired of repeated restrictive measures, gaining their popular support.
The accumulation of social anger is not only characteristic of French society, but a pan-European phenomenon. The traditionally quiet Netherlands lives White nights from the repeated riots. The same is happening in Belgium, Germany, and Denmark.
The number of quarantine indignant is socially and ideologically heterogeneous. But this does not prevent far right organisations from trying to convert popular discontent in their favour while spreading outrageous conspiracy theories.
But the parliamentary far right in Europe has so far failed to translate its demagoguery around the Covid-19 pandemic into electoral gain.
