Posted on 10/31/2014 11:39:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
After a year of unprecedented electoral success, Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigrant, anti-EU National Front party is attracting more members than ever before in the 42-year-old party’s history, French media has reported.
The National Front party has a total of 83,000 members—the highest number in the history of the party, according to the Huffington Post, citing an “internal party source”. […]
In contrast, the governing Socialist party, which counted 170,000 members in December 2013, has seen a decline in recent months.
The center-right UMP party claims to have around 268,000 members, according to Metronews. And the centrist UDI claims to have around 29,000. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
We’re talking Europe, here, so be advised of the political scale. They are MUCH further left than we are.
Quite a bit far left indeed. Their stance on Iran says a lot there.
A reminder for everyone is that NAZI is National Socialists. Nationalist, or should I say Fascists, created the gas chambers for their special boogy-man.
Now in France we are seeing another Nationalists party growing out of the horrible mishandling of the country by the admitted Socialists. Never, ever is there a Conservative answer for the Europeans. The left in Europe is truly Socialists, Nationalists are Fascists operating under the guise of a name rather than on tried and true principles that work every time it is tried.
And we think we have the market cornered on lemmings in this country?
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