Posted on 12/03/2015 8:31:04 AM PST by GonzoII
Paris (AFP) - France's far-right National Front (FN) appears to be on course for an historic breakthrough in regional elections this weekend, with the country still traumatised by last month's Paris terror attacks.
The party's leader Marine Le Pen looks set to take the former Socialist heartland in the economically depressed northern region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, while her 25-year-old niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen is ahead in the race for the vast southeastern region that includes the French Riviera.
The anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant FN -- which has never before controlled a region -- has been climbing in the polls since 130 people were killed by jihadist gunmen and bombers in Paris on November 13.
With the FN's support soaring to between 27 and 30 percent across the country, the party is also in a close fight with the traditional right for the northwestern region of Normandy and Burgundy and Franche-Comte in the east.
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Looks like it will take another woman to save France.
What Europeans refer to as “far right” is sort of center left.
Why would people in CALAIS suddenly back a conservative?
Calais is ground zero of the immigration crisis. There are tons of videos on it on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=truckers+calais
The French National Front is state socialist, not what we would call conservative.
The National Front and most of the media labeled “Far Right” parties in Western Europe are just the same socialists and humanist but with a desire to protect their culture and stop immigration. There is little economic difference. Eastern Europe has some right of center parties that we would recognize as conservative - pro free market - pro Christian values.
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