Five days before the second round of the legislative elections in France on July 7, several candidates of the National Rally (RN) are still making headlines because of their profile, their actions or their past. After the remarks deemed anti-Semitic by one of its candidates invested in Morbihan, made before the first round, a candidate in Normandy announced on Tuesday July 2 that she was withdrawing from the race. The cause: the publication of a photo in which she wears a Nazi cap.
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As usual, It was social networks that betrayed the National Rally candidateThis time it is a photo of the candidate for the 1st constituency of Calvados Ludivine Daoudi, taken several years ago with a Luftwaffe non-commissioned officer’s cap, swastika and Nazi symbol on her head. The photo is in bad taste “, recognizes the head of the Calvados constituency in the west of the FranceShe announced to our colleagues at France Bleu the withdrawal of her candidacy for the second round of legislative elections. ” We can’t look at all the candidates’ photo albums »laments a party official.
RN candidate Ludivine Daoudi had to withdraw her candidacy after a photo was published on Twitter
Arriving in third position in the first round of #legislative2024RN candidate Ludivine Daoudi had to withdraw her candidacy because of a photo of her from several years ago, where she is seen wearing a Nazi cap
➡️ https://t.co/nJi3cemXDK pic.twitter.com/wINCvnRf15— The Parisian (@le_Parisien) July 2, 2024
This will therefore be one less constituency for the National Rally and an additional controversy a few hours after the online broadcast of a video concerning another candidate qualified for the second round.
Controversy also in Mayenne. Candidate Paule Veyre de Soras responds to an interview and tries to explain with her words and much hesitation that her party is not racist. In the National Rally we have Jews, Muslims and Spaniards, she advances before adding more blunders: ” My ophthalmologist is a Jew, and my dentist is a Muslim.. »
In both cases, the National Rally has had no official reaction, even though it has been making casting errors since the European elections.
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