As it stands on the threshold of power in France, the far-right National Rally is facing scrutiny about some of the candidates it hopes will secure a ruling majority for the party in legislative elections Sunday, including a woman it has now pulled from the high-stakes race over a photo of her wearing a World War II-era Nazi officer’s peaked cap.
The French flag flies atop the French National Assembly Wednesday, July 3, 2024 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly and called the snap election on June 9 after a stinging defeat at the hands of the National Rally in French voting for the European Parliament. The second round of the legislative will take place Sunday July 7.
In Mayenne, northwestern France, citizens dug up and shared a press cutting from regional newspaper Ouest-France reporting in 1995 that National Rally candidate Annie Bell, then using the surname Jaccoud, had taken a mayoral employee hostage for several hours. The newspaper said she was heavily indebted, entered her local town hall armed with a rifle and took a secretary hostage. A shot was fired, but nobody was injured, the newspaper reported.
“This is one of the few curiosities that there may be among all the candidates,” he said, speaking on France Info radio.After Ludivine Daoudi won nearly 20% of the vote in her district in round one, the National Rally announced Tuesday that it was withdrawing her from round two after a photo of her wearing a Nazi officer’s cap, with a swastika, emerged on social media.
Another National Rally candidate in Mayenne, Paule Veyre de Soras was asked in a video interview about critics’ allegations that the party still has xenophobes and racists in its ranks. She responded that it no longer did, adding that “I myself am Catalan, my grandfather was born in Barcelona, I have a Jew as an ophthalmologist and, as a dentist, a Muslim.”
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