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Marine Le Pen and Marion Marechal-Le Pen expect electoral breakthrough for France's far-right
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] A 26-year-old woman who says that Muslims cannot be French may be about to be elected president of a large region sprawling from Marseille to Nice and the Italian border. A 47-year-old woman -- aunt of the first, and the leader of Europe's most powerful far-right party -- is likely to be the next president of another big chunk of La Belle France, starting a few miles from Kent and stretching almost to the northern suburbs of Gay Paree. If opinion polls are to be trusted, the Front National will make a spectacular breakthrough in a two-round regional election on Saturday and next Sunday. In the wake of the 13 November atrocities in Gay Paree, the polls predict an unprecedented surge of support for the xenophobic, anti-European and protectionist FN in all regions except, paradoxically, the Île-de-La Belle France around the capital. Marine Le Pen, the party leader, seems almost certain to be elected president of a new super-region covering industrial northern La Belle France and Picardy -- for decades a fiefdom of the left. Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, her niece, is predicted to take Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur -- a traditional bastion of Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... 's centre-right. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-05 |
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