With a month to go until the municipal elections and a year to go until the presidential election, the political scene in France seems to be changing in an unusual way: the “cordon sanitaire” that has long been used to keep the far right out of politics is now being used to keep hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) out of politics.
In France, the “cordon sanitaire” has meant keeping the far right out of political alliances and power-sharing deals during elections for a long time. For years, the National Rally (RN) could not get any help from the major parties.
But the savage beating that killed the young far-right activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon triggered a political crisis. Last Thursday, Deranque, who is 23, was beaten while he was at a protest against LFI MEP Rima Hassan’s participation in an event at a university in Lyon .Several masked people beat him up on the outskirts of the rally, and he died two days later from severe head injuries. So far, eleven persons have been called in for questioning. Two of them are parliamentary aides who work for an LFI politician.
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