France's Front National Claims Biggest Victory In Its History

[Purveyor]

Marine Le Pen's party, the Front National, is on course to secure the best result ever for the far-Right party, exit polls show


Marine Le Pen, president of the Front National, the third-largest party in France (AP)

By Henry Samuel, Paris - 8:16PM BST 30 Mar 2014

France's anti-immigrant Front National was on track to win at least 14 towns in local elections, exit polls showed on Sunday, beating its previous record amid public dissatisfaction with President Francois Hollande's Socialists.

But the Socialists retained control of Paris town hall in local elections on Sunday as their candidate Anne Hidalgo comfortably won the mayoralty.

Promising to be the mayor of “all Parisians,” Miss Hidalgo hailed her historic win as the “victory for a Left-wing that remains faithful to its ideal.”

Miss Hidalgo said: “As the first woman mayor of Paris, I am aware of the challenge that this represents.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10733342/Frances-Front-National-claims-biggest-victory-in-its-history.html

[SamKnause]

1. If their far right wing party

is anything like the far right wing party in the U.S., I offer my sympathies to the people of France.

[ucrdem]

2. Might be worse

now that they're winning elections. Originally it was led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, a hateful anti-immigrant demagogue along the lines of Lyndon Larouche, but now that his telegenic daughter Marine is running it they're taking off at the polls. Scary.