PARIS, FRANCE - APRIL 24: Marine Le Pen, French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) presidential candidate, speaks after losing in the second round of the French presidential election results at the RN headquarters on April 24, 2022 in Paris, France. With 58.5% of the votes...
The Rassemblement National underlines that democracy is a fundamental principle of the French Republic. The literature argues that this is a symbolic discourse rooted in a strategy of "normalisation". This chapter aims to further revise this assumption by asking the question: is "democracy" only a...
Considered the favourite for the European elections in the autumn polls, the far-right Rassemblement National party of Marine Le Pen is now predicted to finish in second place with 20% of voting intentions, behind Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche. EURACTIV France reports. Marine Le ...
We propose a qualitative analysis of Facebook posts made in 2020 by the leaders of the Lega per Salvini in Italy and the Rassemblement National in France, Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen. We show that the two leaders used a combination of two main strategies: distr...