Posted on 12/12/2015 2:31:00 PM PST by simpson96
PARIS (AP)-- She's the youngest French lawmaker and in an election this weekend could become the youngest president of a powerful region.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen, 26, is the fresh-faced rising star of the far-right National Front, using a soft touch to deliver hard messages on migrants and Muslims that outdo her tough-talking aunt, party leader Marine Le Pen.
The stakes in Sunday's vote for leadership councils in 13 French regions are high. If the two Le Pens win their regions, the anti-immigration National Front will shatter France's current political landscape - and Marine Le Pen will boost her chances in France's 2017 presidential campaign.
Both women performed so well in the Dec. 6 first-round vote that the beleaguered governing Socialists pulled out their candidates and ordered supporters to cast ballots for the rival conservatives.
It was a deft move - and now nothing is assured. Two polls released Wednesday showed both Le Pens losing their races, meaning they have just days to redouble their efforts.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, a Socialist campaigning for weeks against the National Front, played the ultimate fear card Friday, saying on France-Inter radio that "the extreme right advocates division ... that could lead to civil war."
In the meantime, the golden girl with long blonde locks running in southern France appears undaunted by the task.
With a soft voice and poised demeanor, Marechal-Le Pen lambasts the nation's top politicians, once taking the floor in parliament to castigate the prime minister's "brainless contempt' of her party. She derides France's policy on migrants and tells Muslims they must conform to France's Christian tradition if they want to be citizens.
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The article states: “Both women performed so well in the Dec. 6 first-round vote that the beleaguered governing Socialists pulled out their candidates and ordered supporters to cast ballots for the rival conservatives. It was a deft move - and now nothing is assured. Two polls released Wednesday showed both Le Pens losing their races, meaning they have just days to redouble their efforts.”
If the French people allow themselves to be played for suckers in this manner and fail to elect the Le Pens, after all that has happened, then they, truly, do not deserve to survive as a people any longer. They will have become terminally asinine fatally stupid.
Move over. My turn.
Let’s be careful not to get sloppy here.
*APPLAUSE*
This is sorta like in the US where the GOPe would rather see Hillary win than support a Cruz or a Trump.
That is a great quote! I hope she is double body guarded up.
Shame it takes women in France to show men how to man up.
She told French radio station RMC: 'I am going to ruin the life of the government, do you hear me? Every day of the week, every minute of the day, they will hear about me.'
source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3355997/She-s-selfie-assured-Marine-Le-Pen-poses-fans-hits-campaign-trail-ahead-Sunday-s-crunch-elections-far-Right-leader-vows-ruin-Hollande-s-life.html
Alright all you French pu$$ies and metrosexuals.....if you don’t vote for Le Pen you deserve the Islamic take over of France. This is for all the marbles you limp-wristed pantywaists.
‘’...the beleaguered governing Socialists pulled out their candidates and ordered supporters to cast ballots for the rival conservatives.’’
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In other words, the French Socialists are willing to commit suicide by promoting conservatives in order to keep the conservative National Front party from winning this week’s elections.
Has there ever been such a win-win situation for conservatives?
In any case, the French Socialists are about to join the British Labour Party along with the Socialists who were recently voted out of office in Venezuela and Argentina on the ever-growing ash heap of history.
Oh man, these French dames, they really got it going on.
Stunning beauty!
What the hell is “fresh faced”? Do they mean “beautiful”?
I like her belt.
I would cut them some slack on this one. They did give the world a Saint named Joan 600 years ago so maybe it something in the water (or wine) over there. What ever is going on, I’m all for it.
Them boots are made for walkin ...
Go get em, Marion
Dang!
Hotter than a two dollar pistol!-— George Jones
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