{"id":87613,"date":"2024-07-04T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/why-more-french-youth-are-voting-for-the-far-right\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T15:00:21","slug":"why-more-french-youth-are-voting-for-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/why-more-french-youth-are-voting-for-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Why More French Youth Are Voting for the Far Right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the 1980s, a French punk rock band coined a rallying cry against the country\u2019s far right that retained its punch over decades. The chant, still shouted at protests by the left, is \u201cLa jeunesse emmerde le Front National,\u201d which cannot be translated well without curse words, but essentially tells the far right to get lost.<\/p>\n

That crude battle cry<\/a> is emblematic of what had been conventional wisdom not only in France, but also elsewhere \u2014 that young people often tilt left in their politics. Now, that notion has been challenged as increasing numbers of young people have joined swaths of the French electorate to support the National Rally, a party once deemed too extreme to govern.<\/p>\n

The results from Sunday\u2019s parliamentary vote, the first of a two-part election, showed young people across the political spectrum coming out to cast ballots in much greater numbers than in previous years. A majority of them voted for the left. But one of the biggest jumps was in the estimated numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who cast ballots for the National Rally, in an election that many say could reshape France.<\/p>\n

A quarter of the age group voted for the party, according to a recent poll<\/a> by the Ifop polling institute, up from 12 percent just two years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n