How far right will France's leftist voters be willing to go?
Kamal Ali waves a plastic bag of grape tomatoes in the air as he stops in a corner cafe after shopping at the nearby weekly market. “I just paid four euros for five tomatoes! They cost even more in the grocery store,” he complains.
“All day long we hear about how immigration is ruining France,” says the public service worker, as merchants bustle outside, hollering prices on fruit, vegetables, and clothing. “But what about how expensive daily life is? Either France is going to change, or it’s going to explode.”
Mr. Ali is part of the 63% of La Courneuve residents who voted for far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the French presidential elections, held on April 10. This Paris suburb, one of the poorest in the Ile-de-France
