Far-suitable parties are setting the agenda across much of Europe,leaving Germany increasingly tempted to go it alone For the moment time in 18 months Marine Le Pen and her Front National have won a national poll in France, increasing her share of the vote in the first round of Sunday’s regional elections compared with final years European parliament poll.
In a year bracketed in France by the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan terrorist atrocities, or Le Pen has benefited from the national mood of fear and anger and the craving for security. But her triumph is no flash in the pan to be ascribed to jihadism. Regardless of how her party fares in the moment round of voting this coming Sunday,Le Pen is here to stay. She has transformed the politics of the Fifth Republic from a binary contest of the left versus Gaullism into a trickier and less steady three-party system.
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Source: theguardian.com