With France’s far right set to win Sunday’s parliamentary election runoff, voters across the country are wondering what life under a far-right National Rally (RN) government would be like. Over the years, RN leader and three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has sought to craft a softened and more polished image of her party and shed its historical links to antisemitism, racism and France’s painful WWII collaboration with the Nazi occupation. Now as the RN finds itself on the cusp of power, FRANCE 24’s François Picard is joined by Olivier Esteves, University Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Lille. Professor Esteves describes France’s decades-long "slippery slope towards more and more mainstream racism".
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