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We have much to fear if the French president, playing with fire, opens the door to a far-right governmentTwenty-two years after Jean-Marie Le Pen was unexpectedly voted through to the second round of a French presidential election– an electoral shock that drew nearly a million people on to the streets in protest – the threat of the far right coming to power has returned.On 9 June, French voters gave Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) an unprecedented victory in the European elections. Her party won a record 31.5% of the vote, twice as many votes as the centrist alliance backed by President Emmanuel Macron. A separate far-right list headed by Le Pen’s niece, Marion Maréchal, won a further 5% of the vote.Rokhaya Diallo is a French journalist, writer, film-maker and activist Continue reading...