Front Nation Gets A Loan From Russia
So Vladimir Putin approves; a good
sign.
National Front ex Wiki
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The National Front (French:
Front national, FN) is a political
party in France.
The party was founded in 1972, seeking to unify a variety of
French far-right currents of the time.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was the party's first leader and the undisputed centre of
the party from its start until his resignation in 2011. While the party
struggled as a marginal force for its first ten years, since 1984 it has been
the unrivalled major force of the French far-right.
The FN
has established itself as the third largest political force in France, after the
Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and the
Socialist Party (PS). The
2002 presidential election was the first ever in France to include a
far-right candidate in the run-off, as Le Pen beat the socialist candidate in
the first round. In the run-off, Le Pen nevertheless finished a distant second
to
Jacques Chirac. Due to the French electoral system, the party's
representation in public office has been limited, despite its electoral success.
The current leader of the party is
Marine Le Pen, who took over from her father in 2011.
The party's political profile is based on French
nationalism. Its current policies include economic
protectionism, a
zero tolerance approach to
law and order issues, and opposition to
immigration. Since the 1990s, its stance on the
European Union has grown increasingly
eurosceptic. The party's opposition to immigration is particularly focused
on non-European immigration, and includes support for deporting illegal,
criminal, and unemployed immigrants; its policy is nevertheless more moderate
today than it was at its most radical point in the 1990s. Some party officials
have historically been subject to controversy for occasionally promoting
historical revisionism, specifically related to the
Second World War. However, the party's current leader, Marine Le Pen, has
actively distanced herself from this.
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The Wiki holds it nose, suppresses its dislike and pretends to take it down the
middle.
Marine Le Pen Of The National Front Is More Popular Than Sarkozy [
6 March 2011 ]
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The leader of France's far-right National Front party is more
popular with voters than president
Nicolas Sarkozy [ a Jew ], an opinion poll has revealed.
Marine Le Pen would gain an unprecedented first-round election victory if the
French were asked to vote for a new president today. France will go to the
polls to elect a new president in May next year, but the results of the
survey, published in Sunday's Le Parisien newspaper and based on an
opinion poll by the Harris Institute, come at a time when Sarkozy's popularity
continues to plummet.
The findings have revived the spectre of 2002 when
Jean-Marie Le Pen – Marine's father – knocked socialist candidate Lionel
Jospin from the country's opposition out of the presidential race in the first
round before losing to Jacques Chirac. The Le Parisien poll found that 42-year-old Le Pen,
who took control of the National Front in January, would obtain 23 per cent of
the vote in the first round of any poll if it were held now. Sarkozy would get
21 per cent. Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry, who has not announced her
intention to stand, would also get 21 per cent.
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This is real news and interesting news. The Grauniad
is still making the fraudulent claim about nasty right wing parties and nice
left wing parties. Adolf's
Nazis, his national socialists were just as left wing, just as socialist as
the
Communists with
policies substantially the same. Madame Le Pen is a nationalist unlike the
traitors who run most of Christendom.
PS She looks much nicer than Blair's old woman:-
Marine
Blair and Beckett
One looks honest; the other looks like a Borgia with the walking dead.
PS Here is another.
She looks like fun.
Marine Le Pen Gets A Smear Job From The Guardian [ 22nd
March 2011 ]
Marine Le Pen emerges from father's shadow
Le Pen fille says she'll lead
the Front National into the battle for republican values in France
by Angelique Chrisafis
in Paris
Marine Le Pen surveys the mountain of letters on her desk, complaining she's run
out of autographed photos to send to fans. Although Le Pen fires handguns at
shooting ranges for a hobby, Sarah Palin [
whose weapon handling is dreadful - Editor ] isn't an idol. Instead, she gestures
out of the office window to a statue of Joan of Arc, the mascot of the Front
National, which for decades under Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie, was the most
successful far-right, xenophobic party in western Europe. Under the new
leadership of "Le Pen, Fille", the party headquarters on a grey suburban street
in Nanterre has been decorated with national symbols: a towering fibreglass
French cockerel stands guard over a rockery.
But on her office wall, to emphasise Le Pen's plea that she is not antisemitic,
is an abstract painting by an Israeli artist and friend. "It's called the top of
the world because that's where she said I was aiming ... well maybe not that
high! Ha!" Le Pen throws her head back and delivers her trademark Sid James
laugh.
Le Pen, or simply "Marine" as the nation casually calls her, has sparked the
biggest political panic attack France has seen for a decade. The "Marine effect"
on Monday brought a historic 15% for the Front National in the first round of
local elections, striking fear into both left and right for this week's second
round. The 42-year-old, twice-divorced, mother-of-three is so popular that
several polls show her topping next year's French presidential first round and
sailing through to the final round run-off. She is on a crusade to "soften" her
party and strip away the old overtones of racist, antisemitic extremists while
defending the core of her father's nationalism, and courting a new white-collar
electorate fearful of crime, immigration, Muslims and losing their jobs.
Le Pen, described by rivals as "the devil's daughter", a publicity-hungry,
unreconstructed, far-right populist "more dangerous than her father", is also
the photogenic face of the extraordinary soap opera history of the Le Pen
family. She is the youngest of three blonde daughters who for decades were
wheeled out by their father to symbolise the true French nation, and who were
teased at school that "papa" was a "fascist". At eight, Le Pen survived a bomb
attack on the family as they slept in their beds. Later, her parents' gruesome
public divorce battle saw her mother pose in Playboy for revenge. All three Le
Pen daughters publicly "lived and breathed the party", married and divorced
Front National party workers, in Marine's case twice.
Trained as a lawyer, she has worked for the party machine for 25 years, and has
now taken to the campaign trail with her partner, Louis Aliot, on the party's
executive. "It's true that there's almost an intimacy between me and the French
public. They feel a particular link to me because I'm not part of that
self-proclaimed elite running France today," she said.
Le Pen's verdict is that France is on the brink of a revolution to rival that of
the Arab world. Social injustice, people who can't make ends meet, a growing gap
between rich and poor, and overwhelming disappointment with president Nicolas
Sarkozy means France hasn't been this angry since the storming of the Bastille.
"There isn't that much difference between the French people and the Tunisian
people or Egyptian people," she said. "The French want justice - political
justice, democratic justice, social justice - they want an end to double
standards and they want some ethics from their political class. The French are
suffering. They are permanently being asked to make sacrifices and yet there's a
political-financial caste that is reaping all the benefits of the economic
situation and awarding itself endless privileges.
"We're in a pre-revolutionary situation here. What's happening today resembles
what was happening before the French revolution. I think the desire for a
revolution like those on the other side of the Mediterranean exists here. Of
course, I'm appealing for a democratic revolution – and that's also perhaps the
role of the Front National – for a peaceful revolution by the ballot box, a
patriotic revolution."
In 2002, France went into a meltdown of shock and shame [ the Grauniad lies
- where's the evidence? ] when Jean-Marie Le Pen
knocked out the Socialists and reached the presidential second round against
Jacques Chirac. Le Pen senior, who holds several convictions for racism and anti-semitism, had called Nazi gas chambers a "detail" of the history and would
go on to say that the Nazi occupation of France was "not particularly inhumane".
Moderates vowed the shock would never be repeated. When Sarkozy came to power in
2007, he stole the Front National's anti-immigration rhetoric and seduced its
voters. The FN, whose vote and finances had collapsed, was declared practically
dead. But when the charismatic Marine took over from her father in January,
everything changed. In 11 days this month, seven out of 12 polls forecast her
not only reaching the presidential second round but beating her father's score.
Fiercely ambitious, Le Pen is not content to mop up the anti-Sarkozy "protest
vote" but craves political power. For this, she must prove her party has
changed. Her father led a movement of anti-system, extremist outsiders, from
Catholic fundamentalists to monarchists who railed against the state and loathed
the public sector. But Le Pen now styles herself as a defender of the republic,
its benefits and welfare state, "the state as protector", she calls it.
But not benefits for all. French people must come first. She talks about
"solidarity", says free-market capitalism is "the law of the jungle" and
campaigns to protect teachers jobs from cuts. Half her new party members come
from the left, she says. She is more liberal on abortion and homosexuality, and
denies wanting the death penalty for school kids who deal hash. She warns the
euro is "collapsing" and has promised to return France to the franc.
She makes her programme seem less shocking but the core is the same: immigration
as a threat to the economy, security and culture of France, welfare chauvinism
and benefits for the "true" French, gradual withdrawal from Europe. On the local
election campaign trail in the FN heartlands of Provence, crowds give her a
standing ovation after she warns of the "dilution" and "wiping out" of the
French nation and civilisation, under threat from "never-ending queues of
foreigners". Is this really a different party to her father's? "Yes, it probably
is," she said. "Because for a long time there were lots of people who shared our
opinions but were scared off by the image given of Jean-Marie Le Pen. They were
reticent to join us. Now I'm at the head of the party, that barrier has fallen
away."
Above all she wants to cleanse the party of overtones
of holocaust denial and antisemitism. She fumed at Jewish associations who
forced the cancellation of an interview with a Jewish radio station in Paris. "I
just want to say to our Jewish compatriots they have nothing to fear, we are
absolutely not antisemitic", she says. Recently, she recently said what had
happened in Nazi concentration camps was "the epitome of barbarism".
[emphases added by MW]
Le Pen still makes references to the second world war, but targeted a different
issue: what a growing number of voters complain about is the "islamification" of
France. During her campaign to head the party, she compared Muslims praying in
the streets outside overcrowded mosques in France to the Nazi occupation. She
has criticised Halal-only fast-food restaurants. She couches all this in terms
of defending "republican values", secularism and feminism in the face of
religious extremism. She is setting the agenda on Islam.
Desperate to compete, Sarkozy's party has poached her ideas and will hold its
own controversial debate on Islam and secularism next month. The Jewish umbrella
association, Crif, and Licra, the International League against Racism and Anti-semitism,
warned last week that Le Pen's discourse was "a threat to Jews and Muslims" and
the far-right was scapegoating Muslims in the same way Jews were targeted during
the antisemitism of France in the 1930s.
Asked about islamophobia, Le Pen's eyes widen. "But there's no islamophobia,"
she says. "People are just trying to recreate the conditions of a latent
conflict aimed at making French people feel guilty. If you're in favour of
respecting the law, you're an islamophobe! I'm not fighting against a religion.
I'm like Richelieu, I'm fighting against the constitution of a state within the
state. I think that French laws, values, principles should apply to everyone.
And those who don't respect those laws and principles should be firmly made to
respect them."
Criticism from political opponents is healthy, she says, but don't base it on
"false accusations of racism, antisemitism and xenophobia".
"For 20 years in France, anyone who was against immigration was called a
racist," she complains. But now she feels immigration is "perhaps the biggest
problem of the 21st century". Hence, her visit to the Italian island of
Lampedusa to inspect the flow of migrants from the Arab revolts. For her,
immigration "has nothing to do with racism, it's an economic problem. It clearly
affects our balance, notably the budget, it touches our identity, so I think we
should be able to talk about immigration without systematically being accused of
racism or xenophobia."
She adds: "The right-left divide makes no sense any more. Now the reality divide
is between nationalism and globalisation."
Le Pen, a member of the European parliament, also says France's sovereignty has
been "sucked dry" by the EU machine. France's cultural identity is also under
attack from "a type of Soviet-style planning where we are seeking through
massive immigration to weaken identities through a sort of general of
multiculturalism where everyone suffers."
She wants immigration to stop and the specific differences between cultures to
be preserved. "It's too much. There is a certain threshold above which the
identities are shaken and collapse and we're setting up the conditions for a
clash of cultures."
She says she does not want her party described as extreme-right, a "pejorative"
term. "How am I party of the extreme right? ... I don't think that our
propositions are extreme propositions, whatever the subject."
Intellectuals love to psychoanalyse the "raucous, tomboy" Le Pen, who looks
uncannily like her father, with a similar gravely, cigarette-inflected voice,
and whose trademark on TV is a beaming grin that infuriates opponents. Many feel
she is driven by a deep need to impress her father and rehabilitate him in the
public eye. Rubbish, she says. "I'm profoundly in love with my country ... I
think politics is a virus, you either have it or not. And it's incurable." She
does ask her father's advice. It would be ridiculous not to given his
experience, she adds.
Le Pen's following is biggest among the working class, but she is attracting the
lower middle-class and the women's vote. She is a feminist and long-time single
mother heading a notoriously male-dominated, traditionalist party. But she feels
this works in her favour. "I've always thought the French people are the least
macho in the world," she smiles.
[* This article was updated on 22 March 2011 to include additional material
omitted from the print edition of The Guardian.]
Marine Le Pen To Visit Holocaust® Museum [
3 November 2011 ]
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A French presidential candidate for the [ allegedly ] far-right National
Front party is visiting the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington to pay
her respects to the more than six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany.
Marine Le Pen is visiting the museum during a US tour that also includes a stop
on Capitol Hill to meet with politicians and a visit to the United Nations.
Ms Le Pen's visit to the Holocaust Museum is seen as a dramatic gesture and a
departure from her father, former party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
He had run-ins with the law during his long career for minimizing the Holocaust
and calling the Second World War gas chambers "a detail" of history.
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Madame le Pen is pandering to the Jews, making like she believes the
Holocaust® story. The two main contenders in the French election were going to be Sarkozy,
a Jew and
Strauss-Kahn the rutting chimpanzee Jew running
the IMF. This is what gamblers call a stacked
deck. But Kahn was put in prison after a black whore alleged rape which put him
out the running. How was Marine nobbled? Threats, blackmail, bribes are the
obvious methods. Jews have huge influence in the
Main Stream Media.
One pay off is a boost from
Reuters
founded by
Paul Reuter, another Jew. See
Marine Le Pen Makes Progress For The National Front
The Guardian,
England's voice of the
Feminist,
Homosexual,
Illegal Immigrant, wine snob and general purpose
Useful Idiot told us that she had been nobbled
back in March - see
Marine Le Pen emerges from father's shadow
