(Radio France Internationale).- This is the end “Gender gap(gender gap) versus the radical right. For a long time, the co-founder of the party was Jean-Marie Le Pen. Mostly men voted for himbut after the recent European elections this is no longer the case.

Alignment selective behavior of men and women For the main far-right party observed since 2012, the focus has been on the European elections. National group won ten points among female voters According to an Ipsos poll, between the 2019 and 2024 European elections the figure increased from 19% to 30% (and from 28% to 32% among men). The Ifop poll showed that 32% of women voted for AN, slightly ahead of men (31%).

For comparison: Jean-Marie Le Pen, then president of the party and father of its current leader Marine Le Pen, received 26% male votes in the 2002 presidential elections against 11% of women’s votes.

End the gender gap

“We can no longer talk aboutGender gap‘ when it comes to A.N.“confirms Mariette Sino, sociologist and honorary director of research at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and the Paris Institute of Political Studies Sciences Po.

“Marine Le Pen did strategic use of your gender speaking directly to women, saying:I’m also a woman“It’s difficult for me, I have children to raise, I’m divorced,” she adds. “This strategy has borne fruit, especially among the most vulnerable, who have seen it as a resource in the fight against the high cost of living.”

Janine Mossuz-LawauCNRS Research Director at Cevipof, agrees: “Indeed, there isSea effect“but also the ‘Jordan Bardella effect’ among women, as this 28-year-old far-right young man, President of the National Academy of Sciences since 2021 and leading the list in the last European elections, appears as the ‘ideal son’ of the law.”

A study by polling company Ifop for Le Point magazine and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, published this Friday, estimates growth of women’s vote To National group +13% since 2019.

“Much of RN growth nationally is due to the impressive jump in female electorate. This electorate is increasingly concerned safetyconsidering the risk physical or sexual abuse“Says Jérôme Fourquet, Ifop political scientist.

Concerns of left-wing feminist organizations

Left-wing feminist organizations view this phenomenon with concern.

” women vote (almost) to the same extent as men in relation to AN, despite the fact that the “target” of its policies will be women,” exclaimed, in particular, Céline Piques from the organization Osez le féminisme!