France Goes “Blue”

... recent decades, this consensus has been shaken by the electoral gains of the National Front, the party that inherits the xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic ideas of the opponents of the liberal republic from Action Francaise to Poujadistes, who promoted Jean-Marie Le Pen. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler Eugenia Obichkina: Nicolas Sarkozy's Comeback The spectacular growth of the Party’s electorate under his daughter Marine Le Pen, who now leads the party, owes much to the social despair in the face of the economic crisis that began in 2008. The NF draws most of its ...