Posted on 04/22/2012 10:05:08 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Marine Le Pen secured the highest score for the far-Right in French presidential election history on Sunday, in a third-place finish that will present a major challenge to the two mainstream candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, left in the race.
According to official forecasts, the 43-year-old daughter of the founder of the National Front (NF) secured between 18.2 and 20 per cent of the vote, performing even better than Jean Marie Le Pen’s shock result in 2002, when he won 17 per cent.
At her press conference on Sunday night she burst into a rendition of La Marseillaise in front of delirious supporters waving the national flag.
“Whatever happens over the next two weeks, the battle for France has only just begun,” she said.
“We have exploded the monopoly of the two [main] parties of banks, finance, of multinationals, of resignation and abandonment, and carried higher than ever before the hopes of national ideas.
“Faced with an incumbent president at the head of a considerably weakened party, we are the only opposition to the ultra-liberal, lax and libertarian Left.”
Although it failed to take her into the second round, Miss Le Pen’s success will boost her influence on the French political scene, and is likely to hand her party seats in parliament later in the year. It could affect relations with minorities in France and in other European countries after a campaign based on rhetoric against immigrants, Islam and the European Union.
The winner of yesterday’s first round was the Socialist candidate François Hollande, with 28-29 per cent, who will contest the run-off against President Nicolas Sarkozy, who, with 25-27 per cent, became the first incumbent president to lose at the first hurdle.
A victory in the May 6 run-off would make Mr Hollande, 57, France’s first Socialist leader
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The world media hides the genocide of White South Africans that is going on now. We have to spread the word about this as this is the future of America that Obama wants. Mandela one of the socialists dieties is helping this genocide of whites.So What is the difference between obama and mandela or Mugabe or Chavez etc? None.
68798 White Afrikaners Murdered
http://www.wix.com/ajkraad/genocide-museum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2872912/posts?page=20
There is a very real and deliberate Genocide happening right now in South Africa. Everyday white South African’s in the Cities and in Rural area’s are being assaulted, tortured, raped, robbed, discriminated against and even murdered.
should be 1st socializt leader in the past 17 years.
It appears that The Telegraph is blocking any reference to this subject or blocking FR from link. Not sure which, but get this message from your link and from any reference to the subject from their website.
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You’ve hurt me with your words!
Evidently something is filtering this topic on the web. I find the same 404 response from other news sources.
What is going on?
I’m starting to see the big picture. The 1.45% probably means very little but apparently the votes given to Mélenchon in the first round are sure to go to Hollande in the second. The Le Pen votes are threatening to stay home from what I’ve read. Bayrou - I don’t know where that fits into the equation. But the dire predictions for Sarkozy are more based on who gets the Le Pen, Mélenchon, and Bayrou votes more than they are based on the 1.45% difference, je crois.
The EU is tanking because of Hollande, not Le Pen.
Neo-Nazi? That has always been the Leftist refrain when those on the Right win votes. It is like playing the race card here. Le Pen is a nationalist who is more in touch with the French people than Sarkozy and Hollande. I wish we had similar political leadership and courage here.
Yet, the basics have not changed. Marine Le Pen, putting the accent on patriotism, deplores what she says is France’s loss of sovereignty to the European Union and to globalization, the nation’s perceived loss of identity and what she claims are real dangers hidden within France’s Muslim community, which at 5 million is the largest in western Europe.
Le Pen wants France, and other euro zone nations, to give up the euro currency. She wants to drastically reduce the number of immigrants — to 10,000 a year — and, a top theme, to crack down for good on what she claims is the growing footprint of Islamic fundamentalists in France.
“They are advancing in the neighborhoods. They are putting pressure on the population. They are recruiting young boys” to train for jihad, she said.
Cincinna, could you please give us your analysis of the election results and how the second round might turn out?
Well, if the train of thought of those who voted for Le Pen is similar to many Freepers, they'll stay home and let the socialist win.
I, too, am a racist.
The Sarko vote plus the LePen vote still clock in at under 50%.
Looks like the Commies get this one.
The U.S. continues to move leftwards, while much of the rest of the world moves rightwards.
It is probably apt to call her a fascist. Fascism is not inherently anti-semetic, and a lot of her economic positions that I’ve heard of sound like she’s for Italian corporatism 2.0.
She isn’t opposed to the idea that the government heavily intervenes in the market, just how it is being currently used. So she thinks that price setting, wage controls, import controls, banning or restricting foreign ownership of companies, ect, are all well and good. She’s against the privatization of government industries, increasing the age of retirement above 60 years, and so on. Just because someone is opposed to socialists or Muslim immigration hardly makes them conservative in the American sense.
I wish I could do that as well as he does it. I feel like doing that, but I can’t work up that much facial jiggling.
You gotta work at it, you old sailor.
As I said earlier, Sarkozy has been kind of a disappointment, only moderately conservative in his actual governing, and doing little or nothing about the Muslim immigrant threat.
Hard to say from those numbers who will win. Sarkozy has Le Pen to the right of him, and Hollande the Socialist has an “extreme leftist” to the left of him. The voters will have to choose between Sarkozy and Hollande.
Even more important than the economy—but related to it—France has to stop letting Muslims flood into their country from their former colonies. Le Pin is the only one who might actually do something about that, but the majority of French voters still refuse to face facts. The left has labeled her father and her Nazis not because of their economic views, but because they say that France should be for the French, and they don’t need all those Muslim Arabs sitting in public housing, eating on public welfare, blocking the streets during prayer time, and burning cars in their spare time.
Sarkozy told Chirac that he ought to do something about that problem, but he hasn’t done much himself, beyond a few token gestures.
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