“Victory was stolen from them using dirty tricks,” Corrine said as her children played in a playground in Eysines, a suburb of Bordeaux in France.
She couldn’t hide her disappointment that the party she backs, the far right Rassemblement National, came just third in Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
“We were hoping for change and an RN government,” her friend Sylvie added. “Now we will have to put up with whatever comes next.”
Until Sunday, this constituency was held by the RN’s Grégoire de Fournas. He became one of the previous parliament’s most infamous members after shouting "they should go back to Africa" as a black colleague talked about a migrant rescue boat in 2022.
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