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France’s Front National (FN) has gone from a protest vote to a genuine election contender over the last twenty years. According to research by Ifop comparing surveys of FN voters in 1997 and 2017, the share of people putting their cross next to the Le Pen-led party as an act of defiance to the political status quo has significantly reduced; from 84% twenty years ago to 60% in the lead up to this year’s crucial presidential election.
Even among its supporters, the party was largely seen as ‘racist’ in 1997. The prevalence of this opinion has fallen since Marine Le Pen took over from her father, Jean-Marie, though. Over the last two decades there has been a 25 percentage point drop here, suggesting that Marine’s attempts to clean up the party’s image is working, pulling in voters from a much wider spectrum of French society. The extent to which she has been successful in this will be revealed on Sunday when the polling booths open for the first round of voting.
Those number indicate a stunning rebuke of the Media. With the way they portray the National Front in every single instance (racist/xenophobic/Islamophobic/hate speech) it would seem as if they have passed the point of any effective return on their strategy. In fact, it seems as if it is now having a reactionary effect on their messaging.
You can only whip a dog so long before it bites back.
Until recently, I thought her first name was “far-right” rather then Marine. Maybe the old party make-up WAS racist, but with all those Somalis camping out on the Champs, the party has gone from “racist” to “realist”.
There is some hope for France!
We’ll know by May 8th. Nancy-boy Macron will probably win. Hope not.
God I hope there is still hope for France . Sometimes it seems like all of Western Europe is loss to the Islamic invasion.