France's National Front picks Marine Le Pen as new head

Gerald · 01-16-11, 05:42 AM

France's far-right National Front has named Marine Le Pen as its new leader at a party conference.She is succeeding her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the FN in 1972.

On Saturday party sources reported that she had secured two-thirds of votes against rival Bruno Gollnisch in a recent referendum of members.

The anti-immigrant FN has been shunned by France's main parties, but Ms Le Pen has said she wants to break with the party's xenophobic image.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12201475

Note: 16 January 2011 Last updated at 10:06 GMT

STEED · 01-16-11, 08:28 AM

Keep it in the family.

the_tyrant · 01-16-11, 08:52 AM

how can you accuse a french person of being a nazi?

Schroeder · 01-16-11, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by the_tyrant

how can you accuse a french person of being a nazi?

Nazism isn't defined by nationality. It's a political movement that can be practised by people from any nation.

Skybird · 01-16-11, 09:09 AM

Disappointment with failing established politics. Decline of social status. State corruption. Policies being run in explciit ignorration of people's will, showing them how meaningless they are to those that lead them.

If reasonability and moderate approaches do not work ands ghet frustrated time and again, people see a grow in their acceptance to turn towards more radical approaches and alternatives.

I see it in myself, too. I am certainly not somebody who would vote for a Nazi party and ligning up with right- or leftwing extremists, but today I am willing to accepot more drastic strategies to certain issues, than I would have thought possible ten and twenty years ago. Because I see the political establishement ruining my country and all Europe since as long as I can remember, and my former good will to try reasonable positions has been ignored and frustrated time and again.

If the mainstream politics don't work, people try something less mainstream. In Germany, we see a rise of the right especially in the former GDR, and in those places that have been disconnected from the improvement of social conditions and economic circumstances (though not exclsuively there). German politicians produce these new rights themselves by having made promises they could not keep and a general failure to push forward certain developement processes (whether this always would have been possible anyway, is something different). Extremists do not just fall down from the sky. They get created by circumstances - or not, they meet a public desire for drastic chnages - or not. It'S in the hands of Germany. As well as it is in the hands of France.

In Germany, as I see it, we fail terribly. We seem to be unfit to erode the basis in situational circumstances that helpsa the right to grow, while we appease and tolerate and whitewash violence being conducted by the left extremists. Some parties and politicians from the Green and the left spectrum even side up with the latter. So why are we surprised by what we get?

Gerald · 01-16-11, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Nazism isn't defined by nationality. It's a political movement that can be practised by people from any nation.

Yes, definitely true

Freiwillige · 01-16-11, 08:02 PM

Many of the Waffen SS troops defending Berlin in the final battle were Walloons (Belgens of French decent) and A few Frenchmen Joined the military ranks of the Third Reich.

Freiwillige · 01-16-11, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Nazism isn't defined by nationality. It's a political movement that can be practised by people from any nation.

Not if you take Hitler's word. "National Socialism is a Germanic movement, It is not an export." (Based on memory actual wording might be slightly different)

Takeda Shingen · 01-16-11, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by the_tyrant

how can you accuse a french person of being a nazi?

There were all kinds of French nazis.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,680 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Disappointment with failing established politics. Decline of social status. State corruption. Policies being run in explciit ignorration of people's will, showing them how meaningless they are to those that lead them. If reasonability and moderate approaches do not work ands ghet frustrated time and again, people see a grow in their acceptance to turn towards more radical approaches and alternatives. I see it in myself, too. I am certainly not somebody who would vote for a Nazi party and ligning up with right- or leftwing extremists, but today I am willing to accepot more drastic strategies to certain issues, than I would have thought possible ten and twenty years ago. Because I see the political establishement ruining my country and all Europe since as long as I can remember, and my former good will to try reasonable positions has been ignored and frustrated time and again. If the mainstream politics don't work, people try something less mainstream. In Germany, we see a rise of the right especially in the former GDR, and in those places that have been disconnected from the improvement of social conditions and economic circumstances (though not exclsuively there). German politicians produce these new rights themselves by having made promises they could not keep and a general failure to push forward certain developement processes (whether this always would have been possible anyway, is something different). Extremists do not just fall down from the sky. They get created by circumstances - or not, they meet a public desire for drastic chnages - or not. It'S in the hands of Germany. As well as it is in the hands of France. In Germany, as I see it, we fail terribly. We seem to be unfit to erode the basis in situational circumstances that helpsa the right to grow, while we appease and tolerate and whitewash violence being conducted by the left extremists. Some parties and politicians from the Green and the left spectrum even side up with the latter. So why are we surprised by what we get? __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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Freiwillige The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Phx. Az Posts: 1,458 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Many of the Waffen SS troops defending Berlin in the final battle were Walloons (Belgens of French decent) and A few Frenchmen Joined the military ranks of the Third Reich.