Candidate Of France's Far Right Party Withdraw Candidacy Over Nazi Cap Controversy (X image@TAGACAT)

Ludivine Daoudi, candidate of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally Party, was forced to withdrew her candidacy after an old picture of her wearing Nazi Luftwaffe cap emerged. She was removed from the candidacy list of first constituency of Caen, said Philippe Chapron, departmental delegate, as per French  media.

The decision was taken after the picture of Daoudi wearing a Nazi cap with Swastika, Nazi symbol, was published on the social media platform of her political rival Emma Fourreau of the New Popular Front. The picture was taken many years back and was published at the candidate’s Facebook account, which is no longer accessible today. Chapron said that the picture was taken at a gun fair in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives.

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Sharing the picture on her X account, Fourreau said, “On July 7, not a single vote for these filthy fascists”.

🚨Ludivine Daoudi, la candidate du RN sur la 1e circonscription du Calvados, est portée disparue depuis le début de la campagne.

Quand on regarde ses réseaux sociaux, on comprend mieux pourquoi.

Le 7 juillet, pas une seule voix pour ces immondes fascistes. pic.twitter.com/qRL8hwLZwm

— Emma Fourreau (@emma_frr) July 1, 2024

“This was done in consultation, it is at the headquarters level”, said the official. Chapron defends the party by saying that it is not pasosble to conduct elections by asking the candidates to provide pictures taken 30 or 40 years back. He said the picture was taken “a long time ago, when Mrs Daoudi was absolutely not in the National Rally”, as quoted by France’s local media.

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Now there will be only two candidates for the second round of legislative elections in the constituency. During the first round, Daoudi won 19.95 percentage of votes. Meanwhile, Emma Fourreau won 34.82 percentage of votes, and Joël Bruneau, the sitting mayor of the Caen constituency and the Republican candidate, won 43.11 percentage in the first round.

France is currently in an unprecedented situation after President Emmanuel Macron’s snap poll backfired on himself. The poll saw the opposition far-right National Rally Party soaring for a dramatic win in the first round of the parliamentary poll.