French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen steps DOWN as head of National Front

[Political Junky]

She's desperate now.

Marine Le Pen is stepping DOWN as party leader | Daily Mail Online

French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has announced that she is temporarily stepping down as her party's leader.

The Front National leader revealed she would be quitting her role in her party to focus on the upcoming Presidential election.

Monday's move appears to be a way for Le Pen to embrace a wide range of potential voters ahead of the May 7 runoff between herself and Emmanuel Macron, the independent centrist who came in first in Sunday's first round.
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[Tilly]

Could be a good move, but a little too late. Probably.

 

[Political Junky]

She tried first by shunning her Nazi father, now she leaves the party. Is the French Right as vulnerable as the American Right?

 

[yiostheoy]

She's desperate now.

Marine Le Pen is stepping DOWN as party leader | Daily Mail Online

French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has announced that she is temporarily stepping down as her party's leader.

The Front National leader revealed she would be quitting her role in her party to focus on the upcoming Presidential election.

Monday's move appears to be a way for Le Pen to embrace a wide range of potential voters ahead of the May 7 runoff between herself and Emmanuel Macron, the independent centrist who came in first in Sunday's first round.
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LaPen can taste victory and it tastes sweet !!

Frexit -- this is being called Frexit.

She has promised to lead the charge to exit the EU.

 

[Tilly]

She tried first by shunning her Nazi father, now she leaves the party. Is the French Right as vulnerable as the American Right?

She hasn't left the party permanently from what I understand. She is TEMPORARILY not leading the party in order to focus on the election.

 

[Tilly]

She tried first by shunning her Nazi father, now she leaves the party. Is the French Right as vulnerable as the American Right?

From your own post :

French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has announced that she is temporarily stepping down as her party's leader.

 

[Edgetho]

The French deserve LePen like America deserves Trump.

Know why we got Trump? One reason and one reason only --

The Markets LOVE that LePen is in the running

Put your money where your mouth is.

 

[DarkFury]

She tried first by shunning her Nazi father, now she leaves the party. Is the French Right as vulnerable as the American Right?

If they are then she has won!

 

[Mac1958]

Oops, not good:

French conservative Fillon says vote for former Socialist to stop Le Pen becoming president
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[Lakhota]

Is France crazy enough to vote this female Trump into office? We'll see...

 

[DarkFury]

Looks like liberals there will be sucking hind tit as well!

 

[Edgetho]

Oops, not good:

French conservative Fillon says vote for former Socialist to stop Le Pen becoming president
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Most of the Republican Establishment here came out against Trump.

Didn't do them any good. Mittens, Bush, most of the Old Guard Conservative Mag-Rags.

They're happy being the 'Washington Generals' of politics.

I'm not.

It's gonna take decades to undo what dimocrap FILTH have done to this Country and the World

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Oops, not good:

French conservative Fillon says vote for former Socialist to stop Le Pen becoming president
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But this is the reality. Le Pen is anathema to decent people. She appeals to the lowest denominator and preys on peoples fears.
Respectable politicians are never going to endorse her.
You make a mistake if you equate her with Trump. She is closer to David Duke.

 

[Edgetho]

Oops, not good:

French conservative Fillon says vote for former Socialist to stop Le Pen becoming president
.

But this is the reality. Le Pen is anathema to decent people. She appeals to the lowest denominator and preys on peoples fears.
Respectable politicians are never going to endorse her.
You make a mistake if you equate her with Trump. She is closer to David Duke.

Right out of the dimocrap scum Talking Points --

Ever had an original thought? Of course not, you're a dimocrap

 

[Mac1958]

Oops, not good:

French conservative Fillon says vote for former Socialist to stop Le Pen becoming president
.

But this is the reality. Le Pen is anathema to decent people. She appeals to the lowest denominator and preys on peoples fears.
Respectable politicians are never going to endorse her.
You make a mistake if you equate her with Trump. She is closer to David Duke.

That's a fair analysis, yes. Trump did appeal to moderates and crossovers, for whatever reason. She won't.
.

 

[Mac1958]

Oops, not good:

French conservative Fillon says vote for former Socialist to stop Le Pen becoming president
.

Most of the Republican Establishment here came out against Trump.

Didn't do them any good. Mittens, Bush, most of the Old Guard Conservative Mag-Rags.

They're happy being the 'Washington Generals' of politics.

I'm not.

It's gonna take decades to undo what dimocrap FILTH have done to this Country and the World

Do you see Le Pen attracting moderates and centrists?
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[Tommy Tainant]

Oops, not good:

French conservative Fillon says vote for former Socialist to stop Le Pen becoming president
.

But this is the reality. Le Pen is anathema to decent people. She appeals to the lowest denominator and preys on peoples fears.
Respectable politicians are never going to endorse her.
You make a mistake if you equate her with Trump. She is closer to David Duke.

That's a fair analysis, yes. Trump did appeal to moderates and crossovers, for whatever reason. She won't.
.

Generally in any Western European country there is a pre disposition , by the majority, against right wing politics.
The extreme right will always be measured against Hitler and co. When Le Pen rails against Muslims people hear echoes of nazi rhetoric against the Jews and it makes educated people scared.

Le Pen may have some decent policies but the majority of people wont hear them because of the rhetoric and the baggage that she carries.

In the Uk the only places that these types get any traction are the real absolute shit holes that have seen no benefit from any economic growth. They are the people who have been left behind and they need someone to hate.

But even in these places they are in a minority.

 

[usmbguest5318]

French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has announced that she is temporarily stepping down as her party's leader. The Front National leader revealed she would be quitting her role in her party to focus on the upcoming Presidential election.....Monday's move appears to be a way for Le Pen to embrace a wide range of potential voters

I don't know much about French political processes, but on the surface, that seems odd.

• Why wouldn't she have done that prior to the weekend's election?
  • Was she not aiming to win the election?
  • Would she have stepped down had she won?
• Can she not delegate authority so her second in command can see to the ongoing operations of the organization/party?
  • Would taking that approach have compromised her ability to "embrace" voters?

I don't really care what the answers to those questions are, nor do I really need to receive them from anyone here. I just know the statements presented called to mind those questions.

As an aside....I have far fewer issues with Le Pen than I do with Trump, whom she is at times seen as being a French analogue. Indeed, I have genuine respect for her. I don't know that I'd vote for her or not do, but I do respect her, for she's got some "portfolio" as a leader that Trump lacks and that being so bereft, is currently at the head of an organization having more similitude with a Parisian circus than a presidential administration.

• Experience -- Le Pen held elected office several times in northern France and has been a European lawmaker since 2004
• Unifier -- Le Pen worked to bring in voters from the left and right for several years, cleaning up her party's racist, anti-Semitic image to do so.

Would that Trump had those two achievements under his belt. Or, alternatively, that any other Republican did and had been elected.

 

[Meathead]

She tried first by shunning her Nazi father, now she leaves the party. Is the French Right as vulnerable as the American Right?

You're straying into Flake Starkey area here.

 

[Mac1958]

Oops, not good:

French conservative Fillon says vote for former Socialist to stop Le Pen becoming president
.

But this is the reality. Le Pen is anathema to decent people. She appeals to the lowest denominator and preys on peoples fears.
Respectable politicians are never going to endorse her.
You make a mistake if you equate her with Trump. She is closer to David Duke.

That's a fair analysis, yes. Trump did appeal to moderates and crossovers, for whatever reason. She won't.
.

Generally in any Western European country there is a pre disposition , by the majority, against right wing politics.
The extreme right will always be measured against Hitler and co. When Le Pen rails against Muslims people hear echoes of nazi rhetoric against the Jews and it makes educated people scared.

Le Pen may have some decent policies but the majority of people wont hear them because of the rhetoric and the baggage that she carries.

In the Uk the only places that these types get any traction are the real absolute shit holes that have seen no benefit from any economic growth. They are the people who have been left behind and they need someone to hate.

But even in these places they are in a minority.

Macron seems pretty appropriate for the job. He's left of center but not wildly so, which pretty much seems to match the country.
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