[pepsionice]

Le Pen didn’t exactly have much of a economic plan...her agenda was with asylum and immigration...fixing that. If the National Front had spent two or three years talking about the economy and put effort into a real program....they would have gotten more votes.

Same problem with Germany’s AfD Party....lot of hype over asylum and immigration...virtually no talk over the economy other than wanting some taxation cuts.

[Olog-hai]

There is also that remaining stigma having to do with Jean-Marie le Pen. His daughter is doing nothing to erase it.

[Moltke]

If the National Front had spent two or three years talking about the economy and put effort into a real program....they would have gotten more votes.

I saw an hour-long interview with LePen last year or perhaps the year before...she's a stone-cold socialist. Lots of talk about nationalization of key industries and so on. Maybe the French just didn't want that crap.