Posted on 10/11/2013 6:40:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
… Brignoles surprised France last week by giving the far-right a 49.5 percent landslide in the first round of its local by-elections: 40.4% of votes went to National Front candidate Laurent Lopez and 9.1% to another far-right group, Parti de France. The anti-immigration National Front led by Marine Le Pen draws much of its support from the southeast, but this city of 17,000 people still claims a Communist mayor.
The outcome of the ballot is relatively unimportant. It will decide one seat in the local council, or canton. The National Front is not even certain to win the run-off poll on October 13. But the results are a potential weather vane for nationwide municipal elections next March. … Are voters fed up with mainstream parties on both the left and right and ready to give the National Front unprecedented power at the local and European level? Is Brignoles a bellwether seat? …
Communist Nazi, what’s the difference.
The Nazis have snappier uniforms...
True. Nazis were communists with style.
What passes for “far right” in Europe is not what Americans call far right. It’s socialism + nationalism.
It’s not communism they’re voting against. It’s Muslim immigration.
The Nazis wore the spiffier uniforms.
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