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2024 European Parliament election

The 2024 European Parliament election saw a significant rise in far-right support in France as the RN, led by Jordan Bardella, scored 31.37%, coming in first place and securing 30 seats in the European Parliament. Other far-right coalition La France Fière (composed of Éric Zemmour's party Reconquête!), led by Marion Maréchal, scored 5.47%, securing 4 seats in the European Parliament.

Following the announcement of the election results, President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the national assembly on the night of June 9th, triggering new legislative elections.

2024 Legislative Elections: alliance of the rights and countermovements

On the night of June 9th, following the announcement of new elections, Marion Maréchal called for a "coalition of the rights" in the hopes of forming a union between the RN, LR, Reconquête! and DLF, mixing right-wing and far-right parties. In the following days, Marion Maréchal met with RN officials to discuss the modalities of a potential RN and Reconquête! coalition. However, on June 11th, talks between the two parties failed as Jordan Bardella refused "any direct or indirect association with Éric Zemmour". Despite not reaching an agreement, Marion Maréchal exhorted her followers to vote for the RN-LR alliance the next day. Éric Zemmour denounced Marion Maréchal's declaration, calling her out for her "treason" and excluding her from Reconquête!.

On June 11th, Éric Ciotti, the president of LR, announced during an interview on TF1 that he intended to form an alliance between his party and the RN, triggering the National Rally-The Republicans alliance crisis. This announcement broke the historical cordon sanitaire between the French republican right and the far-right. However, many figures of LR criticized Éric Ciotti's decision to ally with the RN. In an interview in the evening on France 2, Jordan Bardella, president of the RN, confirmed the alliance between the RN and LR, declaring that a "deal" has been made between the two parties and that the RN will support multiple candidates of LR. On June 12th, a political committee composed of influential members of LR declared the exclusion of Éric Ciotti from the party. Éric Ciotti contested this decision, claiming that he was still president of the party. This issue was brought to justice, where a judge temporarily invalidated the political committee's decision. However, a second political committee again excluded Éric Ciotti from LR on June 14th.

In response to the threat of a potential RN government, France's 4 major leftist parties, the PS, LFI, Les Écologistes and the PC, announced a union of the lefts, forming the New Popular Front. Moreover, around 640 000 people mobilized against the far-right in a nationwide protest on June 15th; 75 000 or 250 000 of which, depending on sources, were in Paris.