Bogeyman Le Pen – Scholz about the French elections: “I’m worried”

He hopes that Marine Le Pen does not win with her Rassemblement National (RN). “But that is decided by the French,” says Scholz in the ARD program “Report from Berlin”. At the same time, the SPD politician emphasized that even after Le Pen’s possible election victory, he would continue to see President Macron “in the committees in which I sit.”

Le Pen made her party socially acceptable
While Le Pen appeared as a right-wing fighter a few years ago, she is now decidedly soft-spoken. During the last presidential election campaign, she even said she wanted to lead France like a mother. She successfully ‘deskinned’ the RN and separated it from the radical image that accompanied her father and his trivialization of the Holocaust. She has long since made herself and her party eligible far into the bourgeois center and has dispelled the specter of the Rassemblement National for many.

How socially acceptable the RN has become is also evident from the fact that the head of the conservative Republicans, Éric Ciotti, quickly announced an alliance with them for the parliamentary elections. A large, indignant part of the former People’s Party is now trying to oust Ciotti as chairman, because an alliance would be a breakthrough.

This is how people choose
The members of the French National Assembly are elected in two rounds, depending on the majority constituency. Candidates who receive an absolute majority of votes in a constituency are immediately elected. If this is missed, a second round of voting will take place between the two best-placed candidates and the candidates who were supported by at least 12.5 percent of all eligible voters in the relevant constituency. In the second round, the relative majority of votes is sufficient for the election.