[proxy_user]

"This is a country where last year one in five voters -- that is, 5.8 million people -- gave their ballot to a Holocaust denier.

This is the only unfair statement in the whole article. Le Pen was the only opposition candidate running in the final election, and thus the only alternative to continuing on with the existing regime. Probably most of those voting for him did not agree with his views, but just wished to register their dissatisfaction with the establishment.

[wizardoz]

That is unfair. I've never heard Le Pen deny the Holocaust. I know he's shown a terrible disinterest in it, calling it "a detail of history," but this is not denial.