Saturday, January 15, 2011

Le Pen's daughter: Dad's populism

France's far-right National Front elect the successor to the infamous Jean-Marie Le Pen, the Office would remain in the family: daughter Marine has the best chance of the job. It provides a friendly and modern - and, in the eyes of their critics all the more dangerous. Almost the provocation would have gone unnoticed: In early December railed Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front against the spread of Islam, street prayers of Muslims compared it with the occupation of the Nazis.


"This is an occupation of parts of national territory," complained Le Pen, 42, at a meeting of her party, whose head she now wants to be. But only when she repeated her remark on TV ("There are no tanks, no soldiers, but it's still an occupation"), arose in France a storm of indignation.

The scandal was wanted, he ensured the desired publicity. Marine Le Pen, a candidate for the succession of her father and founder of Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen, this weekend is the decision at a party congress in Tours. Members have the choice between the University Professor Bruno Gollnisch, 60, and Marine Le Pen are two generations - and two visions: a party with new look and a female lead character to be acceptable as a political partner.

On Saturday morning, the news agency reported, citing party circles already, Marine Le Pen had been chosen in the written survey of members against Gollnisch. According to the online edition of French daily newspaper Le Monde spoke out about two-thirds of the 23,000 members of Marine Le Pen.

Officially, the National Front announce the outcome of the vote but only on Sunday at the party. With their attacks against Muslims Marine Le Pen stunned the public, however. Was the youngest daughter of the notorious right-wing extremists now shown their true face? Or staged, the telegenic blonde only as hardliner, as she searches for the party traditionalists support? Both are true.

The proximity to Papa is not the only asset of the learned Attorney Marine Le Pen, you understood it before all, to present themselves in public as a moderate alternative to their competitors - a soft washed version of France's extreme right, as a populist with Publikumsappeal. In television debates, they can score points with humor and verbal punch.

Thus, the Parisian magazine "L'Express", but is it "a new risk for the Republic," much more dangerous than her father, Jean-Marie, who with hateful triads for attention. "Their sugar-sweet radicalism can not just seduce some of the voters, it also opens at the right parties a trap door that was closed since 1988 - the Alliance," said the paper.

The mother a Playboy bunny, the father is a Holocaust denier For this 18th Marine Le Pen has, since Dad's birthday party as a campaigner for the road, worked hard. Just as she herself perceived, should look the party. Intelligent, friendly, without complexes - that is "modern." Your course correction they are supplemented by remarks about their past - a childhood between terror and trauma: There was the bombing of the Paris apartment of the family.

There was the bitter public discharged separation of parents. There was mother Pierette that easily after the dispute over child support payments held in U.S. Playboy was photographed, with apron and mop. After all, ex-husband Jean-Marie had asked her to "go clean" better than to insist on child support.

Now, Marine Le Pen is no glamor figure from the "Gala" is. She is twice divorced, single mother of three children - and presents himself as a simple daughter of the dregs of society "France profonde". She gives herself as a voice for lower and middle classes: those French who are disappointed by the promises of their indignant President Nicolas Sarkozy, bitter since the crisis, abandoned in the border zones of the Republic.

For abortion, against € The ideological profile of the narrow gauge Front National Marine supplemented by economic and social arguments appeal issues. They cleverly evokes the fears of their countrymen. It appeals to anti-European sentiment and calls for the withdrawal from the euro. You want more protectionism complained the export of jobs and the galloping globalization, which led to the decline of national sovereignty.

Much to the annoyance of the Catholic Patriotic Party members advocating the free abortion. On top of that fired them, like other European extreme right, the populist anti-Islamism - though it repeatedly as a young lawyer defends the rights of immigrants. Of course she has nothing against Muslims, says Le Pen, No, only from radical Islamists.

"In truth we have always been right. Our slogans have become not only socially acceptable but also a majority," said Marine Le Pen bluntly. President Sarkozy is not only a cause for concern, chosen in 2007 thanks to the right slogans and content with borrowing from the National Front of the Right.

Also an election alliance with the extreme right is no longer taboo. "We have always been right," The targeted approach to the political center remains an ambitious project for the National Front, which still carries around legacy of history with it. For Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader since 1972, mobilized, especially anti-Semitic slogans and a flat nationalism, if he could find in the squad of the national football team to many blacks.

He denied the Holocaust or played down the gas chambers the Nazis as a "detail of history". The slogans trials and convictions brought him one - which made him even more the hero of a right-wing base. At the height of his popularity when he surpassed the 2002 presidential election, even the Socialist Lionel Jospin (before he was defeated by Jacques Chirac).

But the neo-fascist rhetoric is a thing of the past when it comes to Marine Le Pen, who was elected as deputies to Strasbourg EU Parliament. The new National Front should be a nationally and socially committed party which applies the "whole French people," she says. First, of course, they must bring their own camp behind him.

Your comparison of praying Muslims with the German occupation it has now tabled in Lyon trial for "incitement to racial hatred". The politician responded just as her father - and how their supporters expect it. The term "occupation" is not acting it is a gaffe, she stated for the record, but to the description of a reality after "thorough analysis".

"I stand by my opinion," she insists. "I move one iota from it." Everything indicates that with Marine Le Pen, the head of the National Front in the family.

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