Marine Le Pen: “Yes, we hope the victory of Syriza” – The World

Marine Le Pen: "Yes, we hope the victory of Syriza" – The World

Le Monde | 01/20/2015 at 1:21 p.m. • Updated 01/20/2015 at 14:28 | By Abel Mestre

This is a support for the least surprising. Marine Le Pen, National Front president told the World that “hoped the Syriza victory” in the Greek parliamentary elections to be held Sunday, Jan. 25.

For the contender at the Elysee Palace, there is no contradiction that the far-right party supports the coalition of the left and far left. “There is a divide in Europe that passes through the takeover of peoples against totalitarianism of the European Union and his accomplices, financial markets , continuing M ^me Le Pen. I am completely consistent. That does not make me a far-left activist! We do not agree with their whole program, including the immigration plan. But we would welcome us to their victory. “

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Blur Cards

summary, according to her, the victory of Syriza help strengthen the Eurosceptic camp … Even if Syriza is in favor of keeping Greece in the euro area. This support for an opposing political family is tactical and punctual. And is not intended to generalize. In Spain, M ^me Le Pen hopes that a “part of the People’s Party [right to power in Spain] will have the courage not to stay in the absolute support for the European Union “.

This position allows again to Marine Le Pen to blur the political maps. And when it discharges to the far left, it is not innocent. It is a member of more than its demonization strategy. Because there is more confusion, more difficult it is to return the FN that it is basically, that is to say, a far-right party.

In addition, on specifically Greece, Syriza support gives it the advantage of clearly out of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. M ^me Le Pen also added amusement, as in countries like Spain and Greece, where “There is no equivalent to the National Front is the extreme left who takes our place. ”

This is not the first time that Marine Le Pen draws to the left of the left. She looks carefully at what is happening on the other side of the political spectrum from early 2000. In 2003, she even gave a press conference at the European Social Forum in Paris. She felt already that the anti-globalization posed “ good questions but [brought] wrong answers.”

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