If the nationalist, National Rally party secure a majority, it would usher in France's first far-right government since World War Two and send shockwaves through the European Union.
Reports of antisemitic and anti-Muslim acts in France increased by 284% and 29% respectively, France’s human rights commission, the CNCDH, said in an annual report published on Thursday.
The EP electorate’s surge in support for right-wing parties indicates that patience has run out, and immigration laws need changing.
Political Affairs: Results are coming in from elections for politicians indicating that Israel’s position in the world might not be as bad as the impression gleaned from social media and on campuses
Irish leftwing pro-Palestinian Clare Daly lost her MEP seat. Known for criticizing Western militarism and Israel, she gained social media fame and appeared in Chinese and Russian media
The European left is dead. It is disconnected. The Conservative government in England will fall, and the right to the right of the Conservatives will grow stronger.
An exit poll for state broadcaster RAI said Brothers of Italy won between 26-30% of the vote, with the center-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) coming second with 21-25%
On Thursday, the EU parliament voted to condemn Iran, showing its support for Israel and acknowledging the role Iran plays in destabilizing the region.
"Israel has been operating on the premise that if you tell a lie long enough. [If] you repeat it over and over, people will believe it," Francesca Albanese to European Parliament
The reform, according to the parliament, was passed so that the violent imagery taught in Palestinian textbooks prior would cease and no longer be an obstacle to peaceful solutions.
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