No breakthrough for France’s National Front, says new poll

[snoop1130]

No breakthrough for France’s National Front, says new poll
Euronews

FRANCE -- France’s far-right National Front may not get enough votes to win two key regions in this weekend’s local election second-round run-offs, according to a new poll.

The country’s mainstream parties have been scrambling to stop the rise of Marine Le Pen and her niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen after they made massive gains in last weekend’s first round of voting.

In the French Riviera PACA region, the poll shows that in the second-round run-offs, Marion Merechal Le Pen would lose to the right-wing candidate Christian Estrosi who’s been gaining support from the left.

“Do we speak about the actual Christian Estrosi of the present, who in the last few days has transformed himself into the candidate of the left, or do we speak about the Christian Estrosi of the past who wanted in time an alliance with the National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, in 1988, in 1991, in 1992, in 1993, in 1998?,” asked Marion Maréchal-Le Pen. “What a strange opponent!”

The poll for television station LCI and newspaper Le Figaro found that many left-wing voters will support the conservatives in the second round to keep the National Front from winning.

Many people are applying at police stations to vote by proxy to make sure the anti-Europe, anti-immigrant National Front don’t make the big breakthrough they’re hoping for.

Source: http://www.euronews.com/2015/12/10/no-breakthrough-for-france-s-national-front-says-new-poll/

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-12-10

[SgtRock]

Mainstream Parties in panic. Quick start the discredit campaign.

There is a reason that right wing parties are on the rise throughout the EU.

Time to extract your heads from your nether regions and face facts.

Edited December 10, 2015 by SgtRock

[NeverSure]

Interesting. According to this source, apparently there is "the left" and "the left wing" but no "far left". The right however is "the far right".

If I'm standing on the moon like these leftist writers are, I guess the Earth looks like "The Small Earth" and the moon looks like "The Big Moon" aka "The Center of the Universe".

Cheers.

[Mr Moo]

Unfortunately it will take armed struggle on the streets, their wive's and daughters raped for these lefty pricks to wake up and even then not all will ever see beyond their clouded view of utopia.

[Steely Dan]

Mainstream Parties in panic. Quick start the discredit campaign.

There is a reason that right wing parties are on the rise throughout the EU.

Time to extract your heads from your nether regions and face facts.

The other parties are adopting the Swedish model in cooperating to keep the one party opposing suicidal mass Muslim immigration out of government. Such an approach will not end well.

[Lannig]

Geez... I'm happy that you people don't vote here.

[SgtRock]

Lannig, on 11 Dec 2015 - 19:27, said:

Geez... I'm happy that you people don't vote here.

Vote where ? France ?

I will vote with the French anytime, when blowing up the Channel Tunnel comes up for a vote.

[Lannig]

Vote where ? France ?

Hint: check my avatar.

As for blowing up le tunnel sous la Manche, well, I guess we can agree on this if the referendum eventually takes place and the UK people decide for an EU exit.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Lannig

[Publicus]

Given the history of fascism in Europe it's virtually impossible for the NF to gain any real power in government.

Putin providing direct funding of Le Pen and other extremist right parties in EU countries doesn't help their cause either.

We'll see in the next 48 hours how this round of voting comes out, but it's going to be tough on the "fascist b*tch" Marine Le Pen and her gang that are the latter day equivalent of the Vichy French. That's not a good memory to say the least.

[uptheos]

Mainstream Parties in panic. Quick start the discredit campaign.

There is a reason that right wing parties are on the rise throughout the EU.

Time to extract your heads from your nether regions and face facts.

The other parties are adopting the Swedish model in cooperating to keep the one party opposing suicidal mass Muslim immigration out of government. Such an approach will not end well.

[Mr Moo]

Mainstream Parties in panic. Quick start the discredit campaign.

There is a reason that right wing parties are on the rise throughout the EU.

Time to extract your heads from your nether regions and face facts.

The other parties are adopting the Swedish model in cooperating to keep the one party opposing suicidal mass Muslim immigration out of government. Such an approach will not end well.

More from Sweden (and this guy is a Balkan immigrant himself!!)

[Thorgal]

Interesting. According to this source, apparently there is "the left" and "the left wing" but no "far left". The right however is "the far right".

If I'm standing on the moon like these leftist writers are, I guess the Earth looks like "The Small Earth" and the moon looks like "The Big Moon" aka "The Center of the Universe".

Cheers.

In France you have :

- extreem right

- right

- centre-right

- centre-left

- left

- anti-liberal left

- extreem left

French communists lost popularity after the fall of USSR. Although the core communist spirit is still alive with polital figures like Jean-Luc Melenchon and Olivier Besancenot.

Extreme left is more or less grouped in a coalition named 'Front de Gauche'.

You have smaller fraction with specific ideology of marxism, neo-communism, leninism, trotskists, bordiguists, maoïsts, anarchists, and others...

France has not a dual political landscape as you've suggested.

[Lannig]

I really thought I was going to see Zlatan Ibrahimovic in this vidéo

Just anyone in France would immediately think of him when mentioning a Swede who's an immigrant from the Balkans!

As for the French elections, well, the NF might well win in the eastern region. The socialist head of list has refused to give up (and therefore got the party's investiture withdrawn from him) so the three main lists are still there for the second round. Adding to the fact that this region has a long history of "hard" right-wing voters, I'm afraid that the FN stands a real chance there.

Maybe we need this so that people realize the FN has no magic wand, that they won't do better than the others to solve the country's main problems such as unemployment and will certainly bring a lot of new trouble.

EDIT : @Thorgal : not quite right. If we're talking about parties really having gained control over something bigger than a small to medium-small city in the country's, we do have a dual party landscape. Things might actually change on sunday.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Lannig

[Publicus]

Jean-Luc Melenchon mentioned above is the former minister, parliamentarian and holder of other offices who Marine Le Pen unsuccessfully sued in a Paris court last year because Melenchon called her a "fascist."

Le Pen lost the case in the district court which cited free speech in France so now the word "fascist" is applied to Le Pen nationally and globally.

Marine Le Pen also went to a Paris appeals court to unsuccessfully sue a comedian who called her a "fascist b*tch," The Paris appeals court upheld the lower court, saying the comedian meant to be "provocative."

The electoral mountain before Le Pen and her FN is very high.