After the attacks of Paris, the French extreme right has confirmed its … – L’Orient-Le Jour

After the attacks of Paris, the French extreme right has confirmed its … – L'Orient-Le Jour

The arrival of the party National Front (FN) ahead of the first elections since the attacks in Paris confirms the strength of the extreme right in France, threatening especially for the UMP party of Nicolas Sarkozy, divided on the means of counter, AFP reported yesterday. “Those who thought that the National Front would certainly be the loser bloody tragedies January fall from above. Marine Le Pen’s party is here and there. Before him, the other behind, “summed up the conservative newspaper Le Figaro.
The FN has not suffered from his erratic positioning after jihadists attacks last month that killed 17 people. Its candidate Sophie Montel addresses in pole position in the second round on February 8, a legislative organized Sunday in the Doubs (eastern France) to designate the successor to the National Assembly Pierre Moscovici, a former Socialist minister of economy became Commissioner. With 35% of votes in the first round, Sophie Montel face the candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) to power ahead by four points in an industrial region with high unemployment, ball of the government, provides a breeding ground favorable to the extreme right.

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Eliminated UMP, led since the fall of former President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007 -2012), must now adopt its position. As early as yesterday, officers tore between proponents of a line “neither PS nor FN” and supporters of Republican front. These divergent positions symbolize the difficult choice which is confronted Mr. Sarkozy: Call to counter the extreme right, the risk of hitting a base increasingly attracted by the FN or does not choose and be exposed to the reproach of bury the last vestiges of national unity born of the attacks in January. The former head of state hopes to regain power in the 2017 presidential election, but he struggles to win since taking over the reins of the UMP late November. His return “has not stopped the progress of the FN” and “the worst is that he can not speak to the party with one voice,” says one of his former ministers.
On the left, the No. 1 of the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, called “officially” the UMP to support the Socialist candidate in a mobilization “of all the republican parties”, which have already joined the centrist, environmentalists and the extreme left. For its part, the FN appears confident in his chances of landing a third parliamentary seat
Legislative Doubs is symbolic in more ways than one. For the Socialist government, the qualifications of the candidate PS in the second round seems to confirm the renewed popularity enjoyed by the President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls since the attacks of Paris. But the FN score confirms a survey conducted at the national level, which place new Ms. Le Pen ahead of the vote in the first round of the next presidential election.