Paris (AFP)

The military is voting more for the National Gathering than the average, and this very right-wing tropism has grown stronger in recent years, according to a survey of polling stations in small garrison towns and barracks.

In the small garrison towns of the army, the RN vote is "well above the departmental average," noted the authors of this study published Monday by the Jean Jaurès Foundation, Jerome Fourquet, director of the Opinion Department of the Ifop Institute, and Sylvain Manternach, geographer.

This front-line tropism has been reinforced in recent years, with a first leap between the 2012 presidential election and the 2014 European elections, followed by a "very significant" progress in the regional elections of December 2015, a few weeks after the bloody attacks of 13 November.

In Mailly-le-Camp in the Aube, where the 5th Dragon Regiment is based, the RN vote has reached 50.4% in the European countries, ie 17 points more than in the department. The city voted 34.1% RN in the first round of presidential elections in 2012, 44.7% in the European elections in 2014, 53.7% in the first round of regional elections in 2015, and 41.4% in the 2017 presidential election. .

The FN (now RN) vote of the garrisons has returned to the presidential election of 2017, before taking over the colors in the European elections of 2019. "Since 2017, we have witnessed a progressive uprising of the right-wing electorate by the FN / RN. ", especially with the unwinding of the party Republicans to European, according to the study.

The authors have observed a similar right-wing tropism in the cities of the Air Force and on military bases abroad, where the "French from abroad" are used to sulking the party of Marine Le Pen.

As for the FN / RN vote of the barracks of mobile gendarmes and guards republicans, it is also "very clearly superior" to the average of their city.

The right has strongly retreated to European, including mobile gendarmes, but LREM does not record a spectacular increase in their home, unlike the beautiful districts of Paris or large cities, who voted for the "party of order" in front of "yellow vests".

Probably because the sociological distance separating the "yellow vests" and the mobile gendarmes is less important than that separating the "yellow vests" and the beautiful districts, advance the authors.

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