Fresh faces on the far right and left fill France’s parliament
Newcomers will test Emmanuel Macron’s government
Before marine le pen led her 89 freshly elected deputies through the gates of the National Assembly, she gave them an order: dress smartly, with jackets and ties for the men. Sure enough, the biggest group of deputies that her populist-nationalist party, the National Rally (rn), has ever taken into the chamber turned up as instructed. As parliament opened on June 28th, members of a movement that once struggled to shake off its thuggish image took their seats in a sober uniform of navy suits or unicolour jackets.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Jacket, tie, nationalism”
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