12-04-2015, 01:56 AM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-02/back-to-reality-for-hollande-as-voters-flock-to-le-pen-message
Interesting layout of the regional elections and how the parties messages are landing .
Too much to quote from my phone.
Interesting layout of the regional elections and how the parties messages are landing .
Too much to quote from my phone.
Quote:“There is now consistency in the National Front vote,” said Yves-Marie Cann, head of political research at ELABE. “Beyond the protest dimension, it’s also a conviction vote, a signing up to the ideas defended by Marine Le Pen and her party.”
The party has for decades called for reduced immigration and for France to re-take control of its borders as well as its currency. In the current atmosphere, Le Pen is saying she and her father before her predicted many of the problems besetting the country today.
“The National Front doesn’t even need to campaign, it doesn’t need to make promises,” Sawicki said. “The regional elections may be an important moment in which we see a re-alignment of political forces and strategy.”
