With the European Parliament elections this Sunday, Jean-Marie Le Pen campaigned with his daughter, Marine, on Tues night at a campaign rally in Marseilles. Overconfident or worried? Good luck or kiss of death?
She has tried to separate herself from her father, with his long history of anti-semitism, xenophobia, and racism, and anti-Americanism, I might add. MLP has been leading the center right UMP 44-42, just a few points, until now. Socialists are at 16%.
Two things might influence the elections:
1. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy made his first political statements since leaving office in an Op-Ed in the right wing magazine le Point. He called for an end to open immigration (Schengen I ) and a new agreement to strictly limit border crossings (Schengen II) as well as a practical problem for dealing with France’s problems. His popularity is at an all time Hugh, and Hollande is at 10%. If he makes a true comeback, as it seems he will, in a runoff election between Sarko and MLP, Sarko would win in a blowout landslide.
2. The statements of JMLP might remind voters that the FN is not a true right wing, Conservative party, but a neo-Nazi neo-fascist party. His statements on Ebola are just so over the top, would be MLP voters may have second thoughts.
The picture of them kissing on stage in Marseilles, might be the “Baci di morte” that puts a dent in her Presidential ambitions. She’ll have to wait, at the very least, until the old man is dead. She’ll also have to stop dancing at Nazi balls in Vienna.
FAR RIGHT NATIONAL FRONT WINS BIG IN FRANCE IN EU ELECTIONS ~ SOCIALISTS WIPED OUT.
FN 25%
UMP 20.3
PS 14%
Please keep in mind that the FN, the far right of the Le Pen family in France has nothing in common with the right and conservatism in America.
This is, IMO, a protest vote against the failure of the ruling Socialist Party concerning insecurity, immigration and incompetence, a failure to re-institute secure borders, high taxation, and lowered standard of living.
France has huge problems, but the Statist, totalitarian, program of the FN does not offer a real solution. It doesn’t deal with the underlying structural weakness of the Vème République, and adds to the mix, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalist, xenophobia and anti semitism that brought France to the brink of extinction in WWII.