Regional elections: National Front fails to win any regions

The National Front (FN) on Sunday night failed to win a single region, after leading in six of 13 French regions in the first round of regional elections one week earlier. There will be no further nationwide elections in France until the May 2017 presidential contest. Sunday’s poll was seen as a rehearsal for 2017….

Share Button
Read More

National Front candidate calls to eliminate “Islam and Muslims”

As local elections approach, the National Front continues to support its candidates whose rhetoric is openly anti-Muslim. Marine Le Pen has shown little intention to exclude Chantal Clamer from the running. Clamer is the FN hopeful in Ariège, who is not averse to using “despicable slogans” in order to gain votes in local elections. In…

Share Button
Read More

Le Pen wants collaborate with Geert Wilders

Le Monde   15.09.2013   In a recent interview with the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing party Front Nationale (FN), expressed her wish to collaborate with the Dutch right-wing party, Freedom Party (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, for the upcoming European election campaign. Le Pen intents to shows…

Share Button
Read More

“The problem with Islam is not the religion but its visibility”

Zaman France 03.04.2013 Marie Le Pen, the President of the French far-right party Front National (FN), expressed in an interview with Zaman France her discontent with Islam and France’s Muslim community.  Contrary to accusations of being islamophobic, Le Pen considers her party to be a defender of secularism and France’s Christian traditions. She argues that…

Share Button
Read More

Normalization of the extreme-right in France

Le Monde 06.02.2013 A new joint survey published by France Info, Le Monde and Canal Plus illustrates the normalisation of the Front national (FN) amongst the French. The study conducted by TNS Sofres exemplifies the change of perception about the French right-wing party over a period of 30 years in France. The poll reveals that…

Share Button
Read More