France's National Front Party Draws Young Voters To The Far-Right
Among 18- to 24-year-olds, Marine Le Pen is by far the No. 1 candidate, with 40 percent of the vote — a startling shift for a country that's traditionally known for its leftist youth movements.
by Eleanor Beardsley
Apr 01, 2017
4 minutes
It's creeping toward 9 in the evening, but a group of young people is still busy at the National Front party's office in Metz, in eastern France. They're preparing for a rally for their presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen.
Twenty-one-year-old Arnaud de Rigné remembers when he first became interested in the party.
"I was just 16 and I saw that there was a big problem in France with massive immigration and also globalization with no economic borders," he says. "And there was insecurity and places in the city where police didn't even want to go. And for me this was a
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