Women voters for the 'Front national' : family background, values and political preferences ; Les électrices du Front national : trajectoires familiales, systèmes de valeurs et dispositions politiques

Approaching the Front National electoral conglomerate from a different angle, that of its female component, leads to a more in-depth examination of the results of quantitative surveys published over several decades on the subject. The meeting of 28 women who "voted at least once for the National Front" in the Vaucluse and Bouches du Rhône regions encourages us to go beyond the strictly political definition of this electoral preference. While it is important to take into account the geographic specificity of the survey field (the FN's long and lasting presence in the PACA region), the complementarity between qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations does not make it any less possible to deconstruct the life paths of the individuals we met in order to place the FN's preference at a precise moment in these singular biographical trajectories. By looking for what each respondent can put behind the expression of a FN preference, we have touched on identity problems linked to the redefinition of sexual and social roles in our society. We were able to observe the persistence of systematic discrepancies between expected roles (which could legitimately be expected in view of the elements of the value systems we encountered) and lived roles in terms of work, family and especially marriage. This observation leads us to question the place of politics - or at least of the preferences designated as such by the specialists - within matrimonial exchanges. The analysis of this not very politicized sample, like the FN electorate as a whole, underlines the extent to which the FN preference can only be a mediocre expression of political competence. The majority of our respondents have a low level of politicization and hide behind the apparently political "choice" of the FN modes of relationship to the "Other". Facilitating a rapprochement with the parental unit, the concretization of a new matrimonial relationship, a means of filling an emotional solitude, a bargaining chip in the matrimonial relationship or all of these ...