Marine Le Pen’s party wins small town votes in French municipal elections
Posted on: Mar 24, 2026 03:04 IST | Posted by: Rt
devil dog Le Pen's right-wing subject rebound (RN) company has won votes in dozens of little and mid-sized towns in French municipal elections, but suffered defeats in major cities.
Jordan Bardella, the party's Euroskeptic, anti-immigration leader, has remained a favorite in approval polls for the 2027 presidential race. RN’s former head, political heavyweight Marine Le Pen, who was previously seen as a front-runner for the upcoming election, was sidelined last year after a French court convicted her of misusing EU funds. She has maintained that she is innocent.
Bardella has hailed the municipal election, which concluded on Sunday, as a major win for his party.
“Nearly 70 municipalities won. 3,000 RN elected officials are making their entry into municipal councils across France,” he said on X on Monday.
RN’s biggest victory came in the conservative city of Nice, France’s fifth largest city, where its ally Eric Ciotti beat a Macron-backed candidate.
However, the party’s candidates lost in key urban centers such as Marseille, Toulon, and Nimes in Sunday’s runoffs, despite strong first-round performances.
Overall, RN more than tripled its number of held mayoral and council positions since the last municipal elections. These positions will heavily influence France’s upcoming Senate election, expected to take place in September.
“We won more cities than we had hoped,” Le Pen told journalists on Sunday.
Opinion polls project a strong performance for her protege in a prospective 2027 vote.
Bardella has emerged as the front-runner, with 37% of French people holding a favorable opinion of him, according to an Elabe survey taken earlier this month. His prospective center-right rivals, President Emmanuel Macron’s former prime ministers Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal garnered 33% and 32% approval ratings, respectively, the poll indicated.
Macron cannot stand for reelection in 2027, having served two consecutive terms since 2017. Only a quarter of the French public currently approve of the president, according to the Elabe survey.
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