Le Pen is well to the left of even the Euro “conservative” Sarko. That’s unacceptable no matter her better position on a couple issues. How absurd of them to label her (and Fascists) ideology as “far right”.
And I don’t know what’s with all the hoopla about these results either in the media on on this thread (nothing on the commie getting 11%), you’d think she won, she lost and the runoff is between Sarko and the socialist swine just like every poll for months has shown, the polls had her at 14-17 and she got 18, big woop she beat her daddy by 1 point. Her daddy did made the runoff and lost badly. If she had made the runoff against either major candidate she would have done better than him but still would have lost badly. She will never be President of France.
Unfortunately while the race has tightened the socialist is still leading Sarko by a decent margin so France will likely get an even worse President. At least the socialists will own the coming disaster (unless the “right” can somehow hold on to the parliament, that election is month after the Presidential runoff seems like a waste of money not to just have them at the same time).
Thanks, Impy for your post.
To those who have romanticized Marine Le Pen with odes to her “right wing” credentials and years old photos, beware! Marine Le Pen doesn’t look like that. She is what the French call “usée” she’s been around. This paragon of France’s morsl virtue has been married and divorced two or three times, and now lives openly with a man she is not married to and her children.
To anyone who doubts her neo-fascist sympathies, leanings and connections, please be reminded that Marine le Pen was guest of honor this year at the fascist gathering, Vienna’s Hofbrau Ball, held on Holocoast Memorial Day. MLP has never distanced herself from her father’s Holocoast denials, and his calling the extermination of six million Jews “a mere detail of history”.
MLP can wrap herself in the flag and claim to support Republican values, but she is just her father in drag.