Posted on 12/14/2015 3:29:38 AM PST by markomalley
Down but by no means out, the Front National may have failed to clinch a single region in France but it still has the wind in its sails after smashing its previous record in a national election.
There is no denying that the result is a disappointment for Marine Le Pen, but her claim that “nothing can stop us” is more than mere hyperbole.
The far-Right won 6.6 million votes on Sunday. That is almost 200,000 more than for leader Marine Le Pen in the 2012 presidential elections despite a far lower turnout this time – down 20 percentage points.
The FN now has an army of regional councillors, tripling its previous number around the country and turning it into an opposition force to be reckoned with. That not only stands Ms Le Pen in good stead for the presidential elections of 2017 but changes the entire French political landscape.
“We have elected officials across France, it’s unprecedented,” said Florian Philippot, FN vice president, who failed to win the eastern Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine region.
Meanwhile, the mainstream parties can claim little more than a Pyrrhic victory.
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Pyrrhic is the truth. With Socialists pulling out of the election so center-right candidates could win, they have told all of France that they care not for what they say they believe in, just the politics of their situation.
Le Pen might have lost this battle, but her army will just get larger because of this.
How much voter fraud is there in France? I know nothing about French politics, but I have to wonder why there were not greater gains for the FN following two big episodes of moslem slaughter fests and the invasion of Europe by the moslem hordes.
The right is on the march-—next big attack will seaal the deal—Only if Sarkosy steers right can the French Republicans come to power. French politics is a complex animal but democratic in its own way. If things get too bad they can —and will—march in the street. Maybe they need a 6th Republic? Or a new Napoleon.
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