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EU’s Impending doom: Frexit under Far-right ‘Le Pen’
If there is one thing the French know how to do well; it’s building a truly befuddling maze. A perception that seems to have crept into its realpolitik as well. As France entered the Presidential elections, the prospect of a far-right party gaining power appears more and more realistic. Though there’s still a long way and a considerably uphill journey that awaits her for a far right Presidency is to become a reality, and for her to become France’s first female President.
For now, centrist Emmanuel Macron was slightly ahead in Sunday’s elections, he won 24 percent to her 21 percent of the vote. Polls for the second round due on May 7, also show him slightly ahead of her, especially as most of the other players have thrown their weight behind him. However, as Christopher Hitchens once put it, what are polls except for a clear example of sleazy reporting and lethargic journalism jumbled into one another? Donald Trump electoral win last year gives further vindication of this statement. As poll after poll had shown him behind Hilary Clinton.
Read more: New French Law Makes It Illegal To Contact Employees After Work hours
The face of National Front
Marine Le Pen, is the face of the National Front. The party which was not long ago considered a political entity existing simply to make up the numbers is now a genuine contender for the French corridors of power. It is by virtue of her leadership that has brought the party out from the fringes of the French and by extension European politics and into the spotlight. Since taking over in 2011, from her father, her complete and radical makeover of her party has included, finally getting rid off the repugnant anti-Semitist image that the party acquired for itself under the 4-decade long rule of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
She has been a vocal supporter of the various right-wing nationalist movements springing up all across Europe that all breathe the same contempt for the European Union and yearn for the same nationalist prospects as she does. Her most vocal manifesto during this election trail has been devising an economic and social plan to shield the French workers and citizens from the increasingly authoritarian decisions being ruled out in Brussels. Her dissolute projection of French matters being decided in the European Central Parliament in Brussels rather than in Paris has been another rallying point for her.
Read full story: EU’s Impending doom: Frexit under Far-right ‘Le Pen’
If there is one thing the French know how to do well; it’s building a truly befuddling maze. A perception that seems to have crept into its realpolitik as well. As France entered the Presidential elections, the prospect of a far-right party gaining power appears more and more realistic. Though there’s still a long way and a considerably uphill journey that awaits her for a far right Presidency is to become a reality, and for her to become France’s first female President.
For now, centrist Emmanuel Macron was slightly ahead in Sunday’s elections, he won 24 percent to her 21 percent of the vote. Polls for the second round due on May 7, also show him slightly ahead of her, especially as most of the other players have thrown their weight behind him. However, as Christopher Hitchens once put it, what are polls except for a clear example of sleazy reporting and lethargic journalism jumbled into one another? Donald Trump electoral win last year gives further vindication of this statement. As poll after poll had shown him behind Hilary Clinton.
Read more: New French Law Makes It Illegal To Contact Employees After Work hours
The face of National Front
Marine Le Pen, is the face of the National Front. The party which was not long ago considered a political entity existing simply to make up the numbers is now a genuine contender for the French corridors of power. It is by virtue of her leadership that has brought the party out from the fringes of the French and by extension European politics and into the spotlight. Since taking over in 2011, from her father, her complete and radical makeover of her party has included, finally getting rid off the repugnant anti-Semitist image that the party acquired for itself under the 4-decade long rule of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
She has been a vocal supporter of the various right-wing nationalist movements springing up all across Europe that all breathe the same contempt for the European Union and yearn for the same nationalist prospects as she does. Her most vocal manifesto during this election trail has been devising an economic and social plan to shield the French workers and citizens from the increasingly authoritarian decisions being ruled out in Brussels. Her dissolute projection of French matters being decided in the European Central Parliament in Brussels rather than in Paris has been another rallying point for her.
Read full story: EU’s Impending doom: Frexit under Far-right ‘Le Pen’
