Sandrine, a teacher in a college in Aude (the people mentioned by their first name wish to remain anonymous), still hasn’t come back from it. A few days after the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly, while his colleagues were talking soberly about the upcoming legislative elections, one of them got angry and said he was voting for the National Rally (RN). “Never, in more than fifteen years in the profession, have I heard a teacher who took this vote so clearly”relates the professor, committed to the left. “For him, national education is going down the drain, the level is falling and the solution lies with Marine Le Pen’s party”she explains, still stunned.
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Like Sandrine, many of the professors interviewed observe or feel, as among the rest of society, a rise, often quietly, in the RN vote in their ranks. According to the survey carried out by political scientist Luc Rouban before the European elections of June 9, if half of the teachers remain left-wing voters, almost one in five teachers who vote would today slip an extreme right ballot into the ballot box. . His estimates were similar in the 2022 presidential election.
“The teaching world remains one of the last bastions of the left and resistance to the RN, but this bastion is starting to crack”, analyzes the researcher. He explains this rise of the extreme right, in this historically left-wing profession, by “a certain defense of public services” put forward by the president of the party, Jordan Bardella, and “the consideration by the RN of questions of violence at school, attacks or problems of secularism”. A “strong concern” since the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020.
“She doesn’t want it to be known”
A few days before the first round of the legislative elections, Christel, a school teacher in Bouches-du-Rhône, has not made her choice. She would have liked a “real Socialist Party, more centrist”and will not vote for the left alliance, where “Some refuse to see Hamas as a terrorist organization”. ” That scares me “she admits, judging the New Popular Front’s program for education “utopian”. Electrician of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, she is “disgusted by the current government’s contempt for teachers and their daily lives”.
Deeply marked by the threats of a student’s parent a few years ago, she would like to vote for a party which seeks to “protect teachers” et “revalues their status and their salary”. “The RN does not offer all thatshe says. But Jordan Bardella highlights functional protection, the reduction in numbers, the restoration of authority, professional guidance… This may tempt some. » This might tempt her too, even if she “does not support immigration policy at all” you RN.
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