(Reuters) France is likely to see much tougher immigration and security measures to reflect a broad rightward shift in society, its new interior minister said in remarks hinting at the minority government’s dependence on the tacit support of the far right.
Bruno Retailleau’s calls for a harsher line on asylum claims, violence against police, prison sentences, radical Islam and drug trafficking underline the sway of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) on the newly installed government.
After a June election in which President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government suffered heavy losses, the ascendant RN gained kingmaker status, signalling tacit support for Michel Barnier’s new coalition between centrists and conservatives.
