The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Now that Jean-Marie Le Pen is inching his way into semi-retirement, it is, at long last, time for Marine Le Pen to take the helm of the Front National. Until now, she has been an excellent speaker, debater and symbol. If she lost the mayoral election in Hénin-Beaumont a few months ago it was not her fault. A concerted anti-Le Pen campaign was successfully waged by Sarkozy's UMP party,...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Nick Griffin allied himself firmly with Jean-Marie Le Pen, of the French National Front, yesterday to create a pan-European party and claim of about £360,000 a year in taxpayer funding for the far Right.
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Front National, for better or for worse, is reaching out to Russia. On the occasion of a vote in the European Parliament on whether or not Russia should be admitted to the WTO, Jean-Marie Le Pen expresses his conviction that Russia is completely different from the USSR. Here he explains to the president of the EU Parliament the reasons for his vote: Russia is decidedly the only country in...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
THE daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen has said she will run to succeed her father as head of France's National Front party.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
THE daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen has said she will run to succeed her father as head of France's National Front party.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The row over Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time echoes the controversy that greeted the first invitation for Jean-Marie Le Pen to debate on prime-time television in France 25 years ago. Until then the leader of the ultra-right National Front had been kept off the French airwaves by journalists unwilling to give publicity to his racist rants.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Hoping to 'expose' the BNP leader on Question Time only repeats the mistake France made with the Front National One overlooked aspect of the emergence of the BNP is the influence of Jean-Marie Le Pen . BNP publications praise his Front National's (FN) transformation "from a far-right party with embarrassing figures and strident language into a slick, sophisticated, more electorally appealing...
Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... Partei Österreichs , Geert Wilders , Islamophobia , Italy’s Lega Nord , Jean-Marie Le Pen , Jobbik party , Laïkós Orthódoxos Synagermós , Partij voor de Vrijheid
Immigration Watch International (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed, the topic was considered so toxic that no one in France besides extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen would even take it up in public. But times have changed. Twenty years after Le Pen’s [...]
Hocemo Li Na Kafu? (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I remember an interview between Jeremy Paxman and then UK Tory leader Michael Howard in the leadup to the 2005 British general election. Howard said--I paraphrase here--that he intended to withdraw the UK from the UN Refugee Convention. Paxman responded by pointing out that this put Howard's Tories farther to the right of Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National, and would put the UK in league with...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... heritage," he said, before expressing his desire for "the political death" of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's party. In this sense, with regional elections due in March, the debate follows an established pattern whereby mainstream parties of both left and right attempt to establish their get-tough credentials on immigration in the hope of winning over voters attracted by the FN. Midway...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... the extreme right by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, Mr Besson evoked the legacy of Jean Marie Le Pen's anti-immigration National Front party, which is struggling massively with huge debts and low electoral support. Mr Besson said: 'We should never have abandoned to the National Front a number of values which are part of the Republic's heritage. I think that the political death of...
Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... the extreme right by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, Mr Besson evoked the legacy of Jean Marie Le Pen's anti-immigration National Front party, which is struggling massively with huge debts and low electoral support. Mr Besson said: 'We should never have abandoned to the National Front a number of values which are part of the Republic's heritage. I think that the political death of...
David Pryce-Jones (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... Mussolini, far even from suitably streamlined European fascists of today like Jorg Haidar or Jean-Marie Le Pen. Overweight, he waddles. His face seems designed to be incapable of smiling, and he has no humour, no powers of persuasion, no gift for repartee. This glum figure is undoubtedly a racist, an anti-Semite, an ignoramus, and a liar about the unsavory things he has done and said on...
Paul Linford (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... craves. Critics of the BBC's decision to allow him to appear cited the upsurge in support for Jean-Marie Le Pen's neo-fascist National Front party in France in 1984, following a high-profile television performance. But in the event, those who were worried on this score need not have feared. Far from giving his party added credibility, Mr Griffin's appearance on the programme merely confirmed...
