As France burns, the far right sees an opening

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is casting the wildfire crisis as evidence the French state can no longer protect its citizens.

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Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is leveraging the ongoing wildfire crisis in France to argue that the state is failing in its fundamental duty to protect citizens, framing the environmental disaster as a political failure of the current establishment.

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France is currently experiencing a wildfire crisis. The National Rally is using this event to criticize the effectiveness of the French state.

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