Candidacy withdrawn Le Pen candidate posed with swastika cap
Ludivine Daoudi from the Rassemblement National would have had a good chance of winning the French elections. After her rival circulated a picture of Daoudi wearing a Wehrmacht cap, she gave up.
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- A candidate from Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National had made it to the run-off elections, but has now withdrawn her candidacy.
- The reason is a year-old snapshot from her Facebook page. It shows her posing with the cap of a Wehrmacht officer - complete with swastika.
- The picture had previously been shared by her left-wing rival on X.
Ludivine Daoudi from the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) has actually made it into the second round of the new elections in France. She received almost 20 percent of the vote in the department of Calvados in the north-west of the country.
However, she will not be on the ballot in the run-off next Sunday. After her rival Emma Fourreau from the left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) posted a picture on X showing Daoudi in a military officer's cap, the candidate was forced to withdraw her candidacy.
Photo taken at arms fair
The picture, which Fourreau took from Daoudi's Facebook page, clearly shows a swastika with an imperial eagle on it. "Not one vote for these filthy fascists on July 7," Fourreau wrote on the picture.
In Daoudi's place, Philippe Chapron, another candidate from Marine Le Pen's party, reacted to the controversy: His party colleague would not deny wearing the officer's cap and having "taken this photo a few years ago at an arms fair in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives".
"She very much agrees that the photo is in bad taste," said Chapron and informed the public of the decision that Daoudi's candidacy would be "withdrawn today".
This leaves voters in the north-western constituency with a choice between Fourreau and the conservative Republicans.
