A candidate for France’s far-right National Rally party will not run in the second round of the legislative election after a photo showing her wearing Nazi regalia circulated online, a party official said Tuesday.
Ludivine Daoudi, a candidate in the 1st constituency of Calvados in northwestern France, received nearly 20 percent of the vote in the first round of France’s snap legislative election on Sunday.
Her opponent, Emma Fourreau, a candidate for the left-wing New Popular Front, on Monday posted a screenshot on X of a Facebook post from Daoudi’s account showing her wearing a Luftwaffe noncommissioned officer’s cap emblazoned with a swastika.
National Rally official Philippe Chapron told local media Tuesday that Daoudi “does not deny” wearing the Nazi regalia and that she “took this photo several years ago at a gun fair in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives.”
“Indeed, she agrees that the photo is in bad taste,” he said, adding that her “candidacy will be withdrawn today.”
