Monday, March 24, 2014

France wakes up to 'new age of extreme right'

The day after the first round of France’s municipal elections all the talk in the press was of the breakthrough made by the far-right National Front party, with many analysts suggesting French politics has been forever changed.

“The new age of the extreme right”, was the headline in France’s Nouvel Observateur magazine the day after France’s National Front party scored five percent of the vote in the first round of the local elections.

With the National Front (FN) set to win a record number of mayorships around the country in next week’s second round, most headlines in France on Monday focused on the question of whether the country's traditional bipartisan split between the Left and Right had been broken up by Marine Le Pen's party.

The Nouvel Observateur notes that despite previous National Front successes in the polls, Sunday’s results were a “historic achievement” by Marine Le Pen and co.

 “The FN appears more and more clearly as an alternative, capable of taking responsibility and managing the affairs of a community and this is the greatest success of Marine Le Pen,” the paper wrote. Full story...

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