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France's Far-Right Party Leads Regional Elections With Unprecedented 30%-Plus Of Votes
As we warned last week, Europe is about to change forever, and sure enough, Marine Le Pen's National Front party is on course for a historic result in regional elections on Sunday, winning more than 30 per cent of the vote and leading the country’s two mainstream parties. Our words from the day after the Paris attacks, when Le Pen called for "eradication" of Muslims and demanded the nation "re-arm itself," seem extraordinarlity prophetic now "if there is one 'winner' from last night's terrible events in Paris, it is France's anti-EU, anti-immigration far-right wing Front Nationale party leader Marine Le Pen."
As Bloomberg headlines show, exit polls have FN in a significant lead...
- *NATIONAL FRONT LEADS FRENCH REGIONAL VOTE, IPSOS SAYS
- *FRANCE'S NATIONAL FRONT TAKES 30.8% OF NATIONAL VOTE: IFOP
- *FRANCE'S REPUBLICANS TAKE 27.2% OF NATIONAL VOTE: IFOP
- *FRANCE'S SOCIALIST PARTY TAKES 22.7% OF NATIONAL VOTE: IFOP
Le Pen is over the moon...
"Vive la République française ! Et vive la France !" #régionales2015
— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) December 6, 2015
As The FT reports, in the first test of public opinion since the November 13 terrorist attacks, Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration party looked set to notch up its best result since it was founded in 1972...
President François Hollande’s Socialists and leftwing allies had just 22.3 per cent of the vote while former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right bloc had 26.4 per cent, according to the preliminary figures.
Victory in at least one of France’s 13 regions - definitive results will only be known after next Sunday’s second-round vote - would be a first for the FN, helping to build momentum as it looks to the 2017 presidential contest.
Opinion polls before the vote suggested the party could come top in as many as six of France’s 13 regions in Sunday’s first round.
The election, to be completed in a second round next Sunday, will decide the make-up of regional governments, which have power over issues such as local transport, airports, ports and some schools.
The result provides a sense of the national political mood barely 18 months before the presidential election.
“Taking control of even a single region in these elections would be an unprecedented achievement,” said James Shields, professor of French politics at Aston University.
“This is the first test of public political opinion since the terrorist attacks of 13 November. It’s also the last opportunity to gauge the standing of political parties and potential candidates some 16 months before the critical presidential elections of 2017.
“Though essentially about regional governance, these elections are important as a barometer of the political climate in France as we begin to near the end of President Hollande’s term of office.”
Mr Hollande, whose Socialist party holds 12 of the 13 regions, has seen his popularity rise from record lows since the attacks... but Le Pen's success will force an uncomfortable alliance...
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Founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1972, the FN has long been associated with anti-Semitism. As recently as April this year, Mr Le Pen, father of Marine, sparked a family feud as he defended a past comment that Nazi gas chambers were “a detail” of history.
But Ms Le Pen, the party’s leader since 2011, has tried to “detoxify” the FN’s image and to bring it more into the mainstream. As part of that process, she has started to push other policies such as abandoning the euro in favour of the franc and giving the state an even bigger role as a promoter — and protector — of national industry. Those ideas have gone down well in a country where economic growth has remained sluggish in recent years, and where unemployment is at record highs. The FN’s popularity has soared in the north of the country, an industrial region particularly affected by France’s economic plight.
As is clear below...
Le Pen leads among France's top politicians...
And she is gaining further...
#France tonight. Dark blue = FN, light blue = "Republicans" (traditional right), rose = Socialists. pic.twitter.com/5L40vFoW3i
— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) December 6, 2015
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Long nail guns.
Claiming to want to eradicate Muslims is a bit extreme. She would be well-advised to adopt the same scheme as that icon of liberal progressivism, FDR, did with Americans of Japanese descent. Simply put them all into resettlement camps until the War Against Terror is finally over. What could be more concilliatory to opposition parties than emulating FDR?
The good thing about that is that they already exist as nogo zones. Put up fences and guards and its a done deal.
Funcamp Gitmo, where the duncoons can bask (daily) in the sunshine of aLLAH's warmth.
But 8% of the French Population is Muslim - a very big number - not going to work and will immediately inspire reaction
A few well armed Frenchmen will take down that 8% real quick....
Wow! Is there anything LED cant fix??????????
Light Emitting Diode? Not sure what good they will do in this situation.
The 8% lives primarily in the Paris region and major cities.
Regions that would never vote for FN anyways.
Plus,the Muslims don't vote.
Will these camps have ovens?
Could be a green option.
Viva le penn
time to rectify the pro invasion parties across europe.
Usually California is where trends in America start. But, I think Europe will harden its atttitudes re Muslim immigration, then we will follow.
I am hopeful San Berno will have some effect on Cali but, in reality, it's not likely. We are not trendsetters any more but an example of progressive idiocy. I live daily in embarrassment.
Miffed
If our country is to be saved, Miffed, it will be by people like you.
Good luck to us all.
Good for them! Sent the terrorist Muslims packing.
You mean the CIA?
far right - extreme right - ultra right...how about just fucking RIGHT!
the overton window has pushed the debate so far fucking left that normalcy is named extreme.
they have really sensible human ideas.
<<the overton window has pushed the debate so far fucking left that normalcy is named extreme>>
Thanks, wildbad, my response too. Gave the article a 1 due to Tyler's dittoing the MSM 'far-right' thoughtstopper. Good journalism is very important, especially in today's government-controlled 'western' environment.
Agree with you downrating article because of the dishonest and manipulative Tribal association of "anti-semitic" with "doubts the false and unsupportable Holohoax narrative". This is one of the biggest "Overton windows" of all, and the Tribe will not relinquish their position easily. It helps that they do not have truth on their side, and they DO have a record of unsupportable persecution of truth-seekers and truth-speakers in this field. The game is at long last changing.
France is waking up at last?
Yes, it appears Ms. Le Pen gets it. Good for her with her success in the election, because this also shows that the French people get it too.
So what is the relationship between these parties and the Israeli-Neocon American Deepstate + oligarchy?
French Intelligence knew that 9/11 was a false flag operation the same hour, all military professionals had to do is look, and subsequent events left no doubt. So French political people knew soon after, and have had 14 years for planning. But that ride on the anti-immigrant tide will not last past the next year unless those refugees indeed harbor Israeli-Neocon-ISIS terrorists.
Israeli-Neocons must now be getting desperate, they are losing control of the political systems, MSM will not be able to keep 9/11-the-FF out of consideration through this next election cycle, and normal politics will result in many dozens of leaders around the world being hung, and 100s more spending the rest of their life in prison.
Whatever the specifics of the local history, the distal responsibility for the chaos rests on the Israeli-Necons. These are a rational engineer considering the problems.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/the-next-false-flag/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-our-dreyfus-affair/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/about-the-massive-psyops/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-the-weak-spot/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/engineers-theory-of-mind/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/166/
9/11 was a False Flag operation by the Israeli-Neocons in the US Government
only fact you need:
solution state of steel is 2,800' Fahrenheit - what is the catalyst to get to that number?
Diesel / Kerosene less than 600' F at flash point
More to the point, what melted the concrete cores that held up that steelwork
My Kemp's doesn't list a melting point for high strength concrete..
Focusing on the steelwork just leads to arcane arguments in metallurgey and maleablility
at temp. points, even though all structural steel is designed with a minimum 100% safety factor.
In a hurricane force wind scenario with snow loading added in.
But those concrete cores supported half the whole laden weight of the buildings, nothing except explosives
could bring those down in their own footprint.
Well the last time Dubbya & I had a barbeque we ran out of propane. So my art student cousin, Billy Joe Jim Bob, decided to light up the grill with kerosene..
Whaddaya know, the whole cast iron grill collapsed into its own footprint at freefall speed and the concrete floor beneath was instantly pulverized into a great drifting cloud of white dust that blanketed the whole neighborhood.
Hot Damn! That fire was so intense my neighbor's house a block over collapsed into its footprint at freefall speed as well.
Lucky enough we were able to excape in our white moving vans, and my grill was double insured for a big payout. Neighbor lost all his gold and bearer bonds or somesuch, but them's the breaks. I heard some muzzies done it.
True story.
PS: Them Frenchies just wanna have their own country not be invaded by foreign welfare parasites, well that there is some Faaaar Right thinking.
Saw what you did. LOL. Congrats.
Gentlemen, please consider changing focus from how the buildings came down to "who"
particularly as the Jewish/Zionist plan is to produce "new evidence" blaming Saudi {who did contribute the useful idiots} which is also on the longer term Zio hit list.
There is also an effort to Orwellize who the celebrating "middle easterners" were.
No doubt that Israeli Jews were caught celebrating and detained by FBI
Quit your fucking spamming asshole
I must say, I did not consider it span, and Johnny contributes some good posts, IMHO.
Gosh, a person who posts "9/11 was a Zionist conspiracy" in BOLD LETTERS on three posts every thread doesn't consider someone else's repetitive-tiresome spamming on the same subject to be spamming.
Take a good look at my avatar pic. That's my totally shocked face.
Spamming is not the same thing as showing links that support your position, which Johnny does very well. I wish more commenters including you were like him. Your comment should have been directed at 'butter_cup', above. That's a spammer. It's interesting that you did not say this to the one obvious spammer on this thread.
Putting aside the fact that I've mocked the "My aunt's cousin's half-brother's giraffe trainer makes $351/hour" spammers a dozen times before I got bored of it, at least they're only posting that shit maximum ONCE a thread! And they don't even appear all that often these days, at least not compared to when they were being far more prolific with it.
That stuff is less annoying that a half-dozen everything-is-Zionist posts from the same 3 posters that get pooped on every single thread.
We get it. Some people think there are Zionists behind everything. Nobody is going to be convinced by the thousandth repetition of it that wasn't convinced by the third. It becomes noise jamming the signals in the comment section and drives away people with far more interesting and/or amusing things to say.
Totally Correct !
But the How the buildings collapsed is simple and makes Clear Evidence ... GRAVITATIONAL FALL => HAD to be an IMPLOSION.
What we should stop talking about is HOW the implosion was made since that leads to a "poison the Water" scenario were very ignorant people talk about highly technical subjects and also they, the mainstream media, take advantage of some idiots with theories like nuclear explosions and the like ...
It makes the entire movement look ridiculous.
But also ... Silverstein the Jew took so far 4.5Billion$ out of the Implosions. that should be enough to consider Who Profits and the entire Zionist agenda in the Middle East behind tha all Plot.
Hollande wants to deal with France's islam problem from a few thousand miles away.
Le Pen want to deal with the problem in France.
Unbridled immigration doesn't work in countries not prepared to deal with those who abuse the system.
Catch and release? C'mon, catch and eliminate.
Start reclaiming society.
I was wondering what caused President Redline to flee France ;-)
nmewn, do you still not know that the "redline" wasn't met because the Turkish backed rebels were suspected by US military intelligence to have used the chemical weapons and that the objection came from us intelligence?
extreme-right = racist socialists
Tyler why in the fuck do you follow along with the MSM bullshit of calling anyone who disagrees with government far right? You might as well say "Terrorists Lead Elections in France". If I want that crap I'll read the Daily Kos or the Huffpo.
I agree. The practice of constantly categorizing people and their opinions is a means to "division", "placing people on sides you think they belong". It is annoying as hell, just as annoying as the entire notion of red state/blue state, conservative/liberal, Republican/Democrat. That entire concept is a completely false paradigm anyway since the bankers and their fascist partners own all the horses in the races anyway. Divide and conquer.
Not all people belong in 'any' particular camp. People are far more capable than they are given credit for, of having their own free and completely liquid thoughts that might not comply with 'any' recognized faction or set of beliefs. In fact any combination of beliefs is possible and to that person, all his/her opinions and reasons are valid. You bet they are valid. Who out there is such a sheep that they are satisfied to be categorized into some box where they accept the notion that they don't even have the right to be a free thinker? Not me, that's for god damned sure. That's sheep territory.
I like Alexander Bard's view that Europe is full of disgruntled losers who can't get a job, can't get a date and can only play games and jerk off to porn all day nurturing anger and blaming everyone for their life's problems. Such people gravitate to right wing parties that provide anger outlets and give'em someone to blame.
It's a degradation epidemic that no one is willing to acknowledge, because at the center of it is someone who's never before been associated with chronic failure - "a middle-aged white male".
Alexander Bard - like all soi-disant 'philosophers' - is a self-promoting hack who is no good at his core discipline (economics) so has to go around pretending to think deeply outside his discipline... relying on the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect and the smart-ass 'zinger' approach (basically, trying to convince shallow thinkers that smart people are like the characters in 'The Big bang Theory').
Here's a hint: never listen to anybody who graduated outside the top 2-3% in their discipline (at a global top 1-2% institution) - ever - because outside that segment, students leave university knowing fuck-all... and do not have the cognitive chops to properly accumulate and syncretise new material.
As to where the losers are: I suggest you look at the cognitive 'league table' for the OECD - the PIAAC study, which surveyed 165,000 adults acros the OECD.
The US finishes dead last among the Anglophone countries across the spectrum - literacy, numeracy and problem-solving - with the median American 18-35 year old failing to reach a level consistent with being able to cope with the problems of everyday life in a modern industrial society. It's already at Idiocracy levels... next stop is the IPO for Brawndo.
Your elitist position is such a good example of what our problems are.
If we abolished all of the testing, and the pedagogy that is based upon its importance, that allows you to categorize an entire population against all of the others and the pseudo-science to think that you said something meaningful, civilization would be much improved.
Our public education system is indeed screwed up, and the test scores are indeed evidece, but not for a failure of the American people. It is a failure of the education system to have a clue about what kids need, and that is what is producing the failures in our society. They didn't fail, but are made to think so, by people who think a lot like you do.
"The US finishes dead last among the Anglophone countries across the spectrum - literacy, numeracy and problem-solving - "
Two partial explanations. First the demographics of America have changed rapidly, the White % dropping rapidly while that of Hispanics showing a corresponding increase, Second I cite AA which has resulted in a calamitous drop in academic standards to accommodate lazy brain-dead minorities.
Yeah, but, Brawndo has what plants crave...
You would. Gratuitous and incompetent psychoanalysis is an irresistible temptation for folks like you.
A female Farage; go girl!!!
The game is rigged. The Socialists are stating they will withdraw from all elections Front National are sure to win in a 3 way race... to ensure FN does not win.
Not sure about rigged but she could never win. Besides she's gone soft on Israel which does not please papa.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/12035135/Marion-...
Good story on Marion Le Pen
Thanks for the education. Interesting, but too little meat. (But it is an MSM link, so I guess their readers are more interested in her 'long blond hair', marriage life, and nightclubbing habits.) I found this thought-provoking:
<<Marine has been outspoken against Brussels and the euro: Marion cagily refrained from mentioning much on the subject, and has been very vocal in support of entrepreneurs and business people.>>
Do you think she's another Rand?
Remember the lady wants France out of the Euro - that is a major plant, but not as much as the idea of France for French I knew would run the table this time.
By the time all the votes are counted it will be a political earthquake in Euroland.
France will not leave the euro imho. Does France not get huge financial benefits by being allowed to run higher budget deficits than other countries ? (running budget deficits without a similar depreciation in the value of its currency that it would have to endure if it did not share a currency with more fiscally conservative countries)
https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.m.tooley/posts/10204919284284164
ahhh
Marine Le Pen's big sin is that she cares about France. Emmanual Valls, the prime minister, said he will cancel the election if Le Pen wins the presidency. LOL
The Fabian socialist internationalists are foaming at the mouth. How dare the French lumpenprolitariate vote for Hitler in drag!
God bless Marine Le Pen! She said what needed to be said, and she said it eloquently and passionately. Vive le Front National!
Something for these "things" that post on this forum to ponder and stew about, 'Europe's right wing parties are more friendly towards Israel than their current left wing leaning idiotic counterparts that are mostly racist bufoons already. So a turn to the right in Europe is NOT necessarily a move towards racism--it depends whom you ask!
True up to a point. But right wingers in Europe are increasingly taking the red pill and realizing who the real enemy is.
In Israel, National Front would be considered left-moderate.
They have the audacity to think France is the homeland of the French people.
When was the last time the press, or even ZH referred to Likud and Shas as "far right"?
lol.
They're only called the "Far right" because France has been so far to the left. Protecting your people and your borders is normal.
Great news! Hopefully she will win, people in Europe are waking up. Even in Sweden "Sweden Democrats" are making huge gains.
The Swedish Zionist Mafia
I live in Europe. Le Penn speaks for a lot of ordinary people.
The muzzies better watch out, they are being set up like the Jews in the 30's.
And the little princess will do what the unelected EU dictates.
What's the next distraction?
Greece comes to mind when I read crap like this.
It is about time the world turned right. You can only take so many slaps on each cheek before you eliminate the aggressor.
The US should not be involved with any of this middle east crap - quit meddling in other countries affairs but make it very clear that any aggression towards this country or it's people will be met with terminal action (and mean it)
"The US should not be involved with any of this middle east crap"....
Yes well, if you knew the USA's owners you would understand why they are in the middle east.
Jewmerica started in 1913 and has progressed exactly as Andrew Jackson knew it would.
Squid
You are correct, sir.
2nd round next WE...Marine will not win more than 2 out of 13; my take.
Understand how elections work in France : majority vote only in 2nd round. First round can be nullifed if there is a "republican red/blue" coalition against the extreme right next Sunday.
Don't be too sure yet, anything is possible. Sarkozy already said he will not have a coalition with the Left at any price. Of course, he is a politician so perhaps he is driving up the stakes. Hollande's party is also redrawing from certain places where they know they will not win so they can focus on other areas. In Calais FN won +50% of the vote. Calais is the place where the migrant 'jungle' is.
Sarkozy is playing politics. He will see who offers more for a coalition: the Left or FN.
aren't you both right? in either case, FN is most probably stuck at the 30% popular vote level, depending if the elections are regional or national
at the regional level, the French, as well as nearly all other european Peoples having similar political setups, are more willing to send in the "louder voices"
at the national level, coalitions matter more and voters are more cautious. and so less FN, be it through less votes or coalition politics
my point is that a great part of the voters are often willing to make pointed... statements in regional elections that they don't in national elections, also when having a good look at the different outcomes
european voters, in general, are way smarter then politicians are willing to admit openly... since they often have to cater for the "dumbest" segments of them
Well, the local voters still sent out a strong message fueled by the events of 13/11. Local elections hit 'closer to home' so people take it more 'personally'. We will see next round what will happen then. France of course is a very centralized state. Paris pretty much dictates the regions. But also nationally FN has been gaining through the years but the other parties trough coalitions and 'cordons sanitaire' have contained them. The power of coaltions lies with 'kingmaker' parties. Sarkozy plays a key role here unless Hollande becomes too marginal. Hollande's decision to bomb Syria is his 'Falkland war' moment to regain popularity. But motivation is like personal hygiene: you need to do it regularly for it to last. The French have been accussed of not possessing either... ;-)
Edit- in regional as well as national elections in France it are the small left or right parties that give support to the bigger ones. FN does not really have any allies in that respect. But Sarkozy is a political animal. He wants to survive and be back in the game. It will be interesting to see what he will do if support of small parties on the left will not help Hollande much.
Something you should know, Joe, about "personal hygiene":
The great Gallic unwashed myth stubbornly sticks despite a deluge of shower gels sold on the domestic market.
This is a stubborn one, especially in the US, where some people truly believe deodorant is illegal in France.
The myth seems to have travelled back to the US after the second world war with GIs shocked to discover that a still largely rural population with scant access to hot and cold running water should, after four years of German occupation, not always consider irreproachable personal hygiene an overriding priority.
But a 2005 survey reported that 90% of French women and half of all French men applied perfume or cosmetics every day, while a 2002 survey found the French were by some way Europe's largest consumers of shower gels, shampoos and deodorants.
A 2010 survey by US consulting firm United Minds for Tena (a Swedish manufacturer of personal hygiene products) found that 97% of women in France feel ill at ease going out without having washed their hands or brushed their teeth, compared to 84% of Germans.
And 94% of them feel uncomfortable leaving the house if they have not showered, as opposed to only 74% of women in Britain.
The poll also found that the French dedicate more time to the pursuit of cleanliness, with French men spending 35 minutes a day on attending to personal hygiene and women taking an average of 46 minutes – more than all other European countries.
It was not always thus: of those surveyed in France, 42% of men and 45% of women said they are more attentive to their cleanliness now than they were a decade ago.
So in truth, most French people take every bit as much care over their personal hygiene as you do, and quite possibly more. Some don't. But we've never had the impression there are more of the latter in France than in Britain or in the US. Rather, in fact, the reverse.
http://americablog.com/2011/10/french-have-best-personal-hygiene-in-europe.html
Do you really think that acquiescing in your own race-replacement is "smart"? Really.
Nationalism versus Globalism. It's been a Globalist game thus far. It remains to be seen if they will be able to stamp out Nationalism finally. But probably not.
International socialists descended from Fabian Society parentage and the Moslem hijra are cooperating in an effort to destroy nationalism everywhere in the world.
What we need is not cowardly deference to socialists and Moslems, but strong and sure nationalism. We need real patriotism now more than we have needed it since the beginning of the 20th century.
I beg to differ on a small but imo relevant point: "Fabian Society parentage" has a limited influence on the whole of International Socialism. It's influence is more strong in English-speaking countries, which can, in my humble opinion, be said to have (also because of that) a different "socialism" then the rest
starting with the simplest of examples: in the UK, you won't find relevant "socialist" parties, you'll find... the Labour Party
Stop calling them "far right".
It's not far right to care about one's people, culture, and heritage as well as to be concerned about terrorism.
the difference between the "far right" and the "right", in the european political discourses, is not about what they care for
it's about how they posture themselves, particularly in regard to the constitution in it's actual form
the "farthest" right, in this, gives a fig about the actual constitutions, while the "far" right is... nebulous about it's "constitutional orthodoxy"
Le Pen will never be allowed to have ANY power in France, she wants to be too friendly with Russia.
Expect her to be killed by a radical Islamist mus-CIA-lim.
Whereas Hollande, sucks the U.S. cock just fine, he's a keeper.
is that the same French president that first met an unsmiling Obama, and then a smiling Putin?
is that the same France that has now a separate alliance with Russia (with German assistence) in regard to Syria?
is that the same France that once left NATO?
putin de merde, bordel de con, c'est la fin.
Some folks will be eatting their words...
Status quo propaganda vs. disruptor. Should get interesting.
Finally...some good news