Roseline Vacchetta is a member of the NPA in France and of the Fourth International. She was a European MP from 1999 to 2004 elected on the joint slate LCR-LO.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.