“The left has moved away from the people”: in Narbonne, the constituency of Léon Blum conquered by the RN

Under the dark sky of Narbonne (Aude), André, 79, twirls his bamboo cane: “We won’t avoid the revolution, it’s going to blow up. For a long time, this retired driver, ex-sixty-eighter, had a left heart. From now on, he places his hopes for the big night in Marine Le Pen. In the sub-prefecture of Aude, former home of the Midi Rouge, he is not the only one. In June, what was the historic constituency of Léon Blum, an illustrious socialist and father of the Popular Front in 1936, fell into the fold of the National Rally during the last legislative elections. “It’s a political fact that no one notes”, is still surprised the mayor (PS) of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, who sees it as a “worrying” symbol. “Who is the left talking to? asks the elected official, hostile to the Nupes.