The Marine Le Pen vote overseas: “A form of rejection of JL Mélenchon’s voting instructions”

The Marine Le Pen vote overseas A form of rejection

The candidate of the National Rally came first in the second round of the presidential election, in the West Indies, Reunion, Guyana, Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. Scores much higher than nationally.

How to explain the good scores of Marine Le Pen in the second round in the overseas territories, historically hostile to the far right, knowing that in the first round, they had massively chosen Jean-Luc Mélenchon? The analysis of Christiane Rafidinarivo, political scientist and guest researcher at Cevipof Sciences Po.

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