In Paris’s 11th arrondissement, voters queued outside the town hall on Place Léon Blum, named after the leader of France’s Popular Front that led the left in 1936 to prevent the far right taking power.
Leftwing parties have come together again in these elections. The New Popular Front (NFP) is expected to perform well in Paris, where the RN has historically had poor results.
Fayçal Allouti, an NFP voter, said he was “worried” by the RN’s rise elsewhere. “I hope that between the surveys and the reality of the urns, something can happen,” he said.
Luana de Lamotte, a French-Brazilian voter, said she would back the outgoing centrist candidate, Clément Beaune.
“I’ve seen [former president of Brazil Jair] Bolsonaro so I know what it’s like to have a far right government,” she said. “I don’t agree with everything they’ve done but I’m not unhappy.”
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