In Perpignan, French far right tests tough-on-crime blueprint


A supporter of the Rassemblement National (National Rally - RN) party, holds a French flag during a campaign rally in support of RN candidate Louis Aliot for the mayoral election in Perpignan, southern France, February 28, 2026. REUTERS/Manon Cruz

PERPIGNAN, France, March 7 (Reuters) - In the streets of Perpignan, a faded ⁠Mediterranean city near France's border with Spain, the incumbent far-right mayor Louis Aliot is pitching a simple message as he asks voters for another term: more police, more cameras and more order.

The National ⁠Rally (RN) mayor has made security the centrepiece of his administration, and his party is holding up this city of 122,000, the biggest it controls, as a blueprint for governance that it ‌hopes to replicate elsewhere ahead of nationwide municipal elections this month.

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