A dozen stylishly dressed couples danced the tango in the square in front of Marseilles’s art deco opera house on a balmy evening in the run-up to France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday.
“This city’s a complete mess and no one knows what kind of chaos is coming, but we forget all that while we’re dancing,” Christine, 57, said. Some of the predominantly white, middle-aged dancers said they would vote for the National Rally, Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration party. Others were backing left-wingers, but few had a good word to say about President Macron and his centrist group.
“We’re fed up with being mugged,” Valentin, 40, said. “It’s immigrants who generally cause trouble. That’s why people are voting for the National Rally. They say they’ll cut