Far‑right candidate withdraws after Nazi uniform photo scandal

Ludivine Daoudi, a candidate from the French far-right, has just announced that she will not run in the second round of parliamentary elections, which will take place on July 7. The decision was made after a compromising photo was revealed. Daoudi posed for it, wearing an element of a Nazi uniform.

Ludivine Daoudi, running from the Calvados constituency in northwestern France, announced five days before the second round of parliamentary elections that she is withdrawing from the race. She made this decision in light of a scandal that has shocked the French public.

The controversy was stirred up by Emma Fourreau, a candidate of the left-wing New People's Front from Unsubmissive France and Daoudi's opponent from the same district. On Monday, Fourreau posted a screenshot of a Facebook post from Daoudi's account on the X platform. It shows the smiling far-right candidate posing in a Luftwaffe non-commissioned officer's cap with a swastika.

In the first round of early elections, Daoudi received nearly 20 percent of the vote. In the current situation, voters from the Calvados constituency will have only two candidates to choose from in the second round: Fourreau, who published the compromising post about her political opponent, and Joela Bruneau from the right-wing Republican party.

In the first round of parliamentary elections in France, the far-right National Rally won. Marine Le Pen's party received 33.2 percent of the vote. The New People's Front won the trust of 28 percent of the voters.

The centrist camp of President Emmanuel Macron received 20 percent of the vote, placing third after the first round. The second round of elections in France will take place on July 7.