Far-Right Party in France Also Dreams of an EU Exit

[pampango]

If Marine Le Pen is elected in France’s presidential elections next year, would she organize a “Frexit”?

The leader of the far-right National Front party has used the term before, and she has made it abundantly clear that she thinks the European Union has been a “complete disaster,” as she put it in a speech in Vienna last week.

“France has perhaps a thousand more reasons to leave the E.U. than the English,” she was quoted as saying during a gathering in the Austrian capital of representatives of far-right parties.

There are two big obstacles to a French exit. First, although Ms. Le Pen is considered likely to do well in the first round of presidential voting in the spring, no analysts think she will win the second round. And second, it is far from clear that a majority of the French have given up on the European Union the way Ms. Le Pen has.

http://www.nytimes.com/live/eu-referendum/marine-le-pen-national-front

I suspect the far-right throughout Europe is watching the Brexit vote very closely.

[Meldread]

1. Indeed, nationalists throughout the EU...

...are watching this closely, hoping for the UK to leave, and then for the UK to do well afterward. If the UK leaves and everything is fine afterward, nothing bad happens, the EU allows the UK back into all their trade agreements, etc... it fuels the desire in other EU countries to leave and hope for a similar deal for themselves. All of Europe is at risk of being destabilized.

[OnDoutside]

2. Let's be clear, they're fascist and racist, not just far right. She had to hide her father away

because he was too open about it.