Marine Le Pen tries “to position herself as anti-ecologist and close to rurality, against [l]are urban ecologists”, analyzes a sociologist

Is the fervor around the National Rally (RN), notably Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, applauded during their visit to the Agricultural Show, something new? “Yes. Traditionally, the agricultural world is rather on the right, and on a traditional right”replies Erwan Lecoeur, sociologist and political scientist, specialist in the far right. “THE FNSEA has held the matter for years since the end of the Second World War. The emergence of the Rural Coordination and before that of the Peasant Confederation have shaken up the game a little, and the Rural Coordination in recent years has won in audience”develops Erwan Lecoeur.

A European agricultural crisis

“There is at the moment a European conjunction, a European agricultural crisis, which is led by a certain number of anti-European Union, anti-standards unions”continues the specialist, who judges “quite surprising to see that Marine Le Pen, who didn’t have much of an agricultural program 5-10 years ago, now speaks as if she had invented the price guarantee”, a measurement “from the left”recalls Erwan Lecoeur.

How can we explain that after the majority of farmers voted for Emmanuel Macron in 2017 and 2022, the president is losing their votes to Marine Le Pen? “The question is not the farmers, it is the rural world and the urban world. (…) What Marine Le Pen is trying to do is to position herself as anti-ecologist and close to rurality , against these urban ecologists”, analyzes the specialist.