Marine Le Pen's rightwing National
Rally (RN) notched a "clear" success in the first round of
French elections Sunday and this also stemmed from its having
allies on the Right for the first time, Premier Giorgia Meloni
said Monday.
RN got 33% to a leftwing alliance's 28% and President Francois
Macron's centrist group's 21%.
"I congratulate the Rassemblement National and its allies for
the clear success," said Meloni, Italy's first female premier
and its most rightwing since WWII.
"As for the runoff, I always treat the political and electoral
dynamics of other nations with respect.
"Of course, we are facing a very polarised scenario where I
obviously prefer the Right.
She stressed that "in France, too, the barriers between the
alternative forces to the left have been overcome.
"For the first time Le Pen's party had allies already from the
first round and it seems to me that even the Républicains are
oriented towards not participating in the so-called republican
front, (which has always been erected in the second round in the
past by all the other parties to keep Le Pen ou, ed).".
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