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50 ans de haine
Posted in Statistics with tags dediabolisation, extreme-right, far-right, Front National, Jean-Marie le Pen, Marine Le Pen, nationalism, populism, vote against fascism on October 5, 2022 by xi'anWeimar-sur-Seine Republik
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics with tags abstention, Emmanuel Macron, far-left, far-right, French elections, French politics, Front National, infographics, Le Monde, parlement, Weimar on June 20, 2022 by xi'andes racines et des haines [cover]
Posted in Books, pictures with tags far-right, French elections, Front National, frontpage, Libé, Marine Le Pen, populism, vote against fascism on April 18, 2022 by xi'anit’s complicated…
Posted in pictures, Statistics with tags Corsica, France, French politics, Front National, map, Marine Le Pen, Paris on June 21, 2021 by xi'an
Yesterday saw a first round of the regional and departmental elections in France, with a terribly low participation (around 30% of the voters, except in Corsica where 56% of the voters voted)…. [The map here is about the departmental elections, with departments being delineated in white and the subdivisions corresponding to the cantons. Corse/Corsica is “missing” because it is now a single entity. Same thing about Paris.] The only nice surprise about this outcome is that abstention particularly impacted the lepenist votes, which almost uniformly went down compared with the previous regional elections. And hence that the ill chances that a region gets a nazional majority are lowered. Although it is difficult to analyse why: polls were predicting a brown sludge tsunami, the gilets jaune movement (or morass) is not yet over and mostly aligned with the populist themes of the RN, and (some) people seem unhappy with about any decision taken by any level of authority during the Covid-19 crisis. It will be interesting to watch the second round final results, next week, but I doubt we will see a voting surge happening, esp. since the frontist danger is now downplayed.
quote of the year
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Algeria independence war, anti-semitism, apology of war crimes, European Parliament, extreme-right, France Inter, Front National, Jean-Marie le Pen, quotes, racism on October 19, 2019 by xi'an“J’ai eu une vie assez droite, je ne me suis jamais conduit comme un salaud” [I have lived a rather righteous life, I never behaved like a bastard]
Jean-Marie le Pen [condemned for apology of war crimes (1969), contestation of crimes against humanity (2009), Holocaust denial (1988, 2006), antisemitism (1986), racial hatred (2005, 2008), provocation to discrimination against Muslims (2004, 2006) and Roma (2017), and insults (1993, 1998, 2018), demoted of his European parliamentary immunity (1997), suspended from the European parliament for assault (2000), suspected of misappropriation of public funds (2019) and of torture in Algeria, founder of the extreme-right Front National (1972), &tc., &tc., speaking on France Inter]