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"PARIS (AP) — The far-right has gone mainstream in France.
That’s the headline from the landmark showing by Marine Le Pen in the French
presidential election. The fierce nationalist didn’t win Sunday. But she edged
another step closer — snatching a victory of sorts from her defeat to reelected
President Emmanuel Macron.
With 41.5% of the vote, unprecedented for her, Le Pen’s anti-foreigner,
anti-system politics of disgruntlement are now more entrenched than ever in the
psyche, thinking and political landscape of France.
Since the Le Pen dynasty — first her dad, Jean-Marie, and now Marine, his
daughter — first started contesting presidential elections in 1974, never have
so many French voters bought into their doctrine that multicultural and
multiracial France, a country with the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
inscribed on its public buildings, would be richer, safer and somehow more
French if it was less open to foreigners and the outside world."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
