A French sports journalist has gone viral after venting his anger online following the success of the far-right in Sunday’s elections.
Benjamin Bernard, an on-air reporter for beIN Sport, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that there were “12 million SOBs in our country. That’s it, it had to come out.”
Bernard was referring to the voters of the far-right National Rally (Rn) party and its allies, which were the winners in Sunday’s first round of voting for France’s parliament, with 33 percent of the popular vote. The leftwing New Popular Front (Nfp) alliance came in second with 28 percent, while French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Together coalition reached 20 percent, according to official tallies. The result marks the first time the Rn, headed by far-right populist Marine Le Pen, has won more than 20 percent of the vote in a parliamentary election. Macron called the snap vote after last month’s European elections,...
Benjamin Bernard, an on-air reporter for beIN Sport, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that there were “12 million SOBs in our country. That’s it, it had to come out.”
Bernard was referring to the voters of the far-right National Rally (Rn) party and its allies, which were the winners in Sunday’s first round of voting for France’s parliament, with 33 percent of the popular vote. The leftwing New Popular Front (Nfp) alliance came in second with 28 percent, while French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Together coalition reached 20 percent, according to official tallies. The result marks the first time the Rn, headed by far-right populist Marine Le Pen, has won more than 20 percent of the vote in a parliamentary election. Macron called the snap vote after last month’s European elections,...
- 7/1/2024
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