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 | Prime Minister would like today to be the last meeting for the measures but everything indicates that there will be some more … |
www.euronews.com Lyon is France’s second city and birth place of the 1990s urban riots which spread across the country. The city has long been conservative and the far-right vote is variable. However votes are changing in Europe and the far-right is attracting people from all kinds of backgrounds. The Front National had 0.75% of the vote in 1974. By the 1980s they had turned a corner and stabilised at around 14%. They then peaked in 2002 when Jean-Marie Le Pen made it through to the second round of the presidential elections. Today one in ten French people vote for the Front National, but who are they? They are not easy to find. Far-right voters are often reluctant to talk about their political leanings because of extreme stereotypes. However in an affluent Lyonnais suburb, the characture is broken when we meet housewife Muriel Coativy and recently retired Nicolas Flores. euronews: “What is it about the Front National values ??that you relate to so strongly?” Nicolas Flores: “National identity. Now I feel that everything is disappearing and that there are no more values. We can hardly say we love France, we no longer have the right to sing le Marseillaise. France no longer exists. It has no borders to protect itself and our rules come from elsewhere. ” Muriel Coativy adds: “For me it is a federalist Europe. Europe has been imposed on us and each country loses more of its identity. The people and the population are in the service of globalisation. Thinking about how it will .. . Video Rating: 3/5