The Far-Right Could Win France’s Famously Diverse Region
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally movement could gain its first ever region in elections starting this Sunday.
Posters of Thierry Mariani in Marseille, France.
Photographer: Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
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Thierry Mariani didn’t know what to expect as his campaign approached the street market in Antibes.
His far-right party boss, Marine Le Pen, encountered an angry mob when she visited six years earlier. But something has changed in this corner of France, maybe across the whole country.