After The Paris Atrocities, The ‘Anti-Muslim’ Far Right Is Forecast To Take Over Swathes Of France
A 26-year-old woman who says that Muslims cannot be French may be about to be elected president of a large region sprawling from Marseille to Nice and the Italian border.
A 47-year-old woman – aunt of the first, and the leader of Europe’s most powerfulfar-right party – is likely to be the next president of another big chunk of France, starting a few miles from Kent and stretching almost to the northern suburbs of Paris.
If opinion polls are to be trusted, the Front National will make a spectacular breakthrough in a two-round regional election on Saturday and next Sunday.
In the wake of the 13 November atrocities in Paris, the polls predict an unprecedented surge of support for the xenophobic, anti-European and protectionist FN in all regions except, paradoxically, the Île-de-France around the capital.
Marine Le Pen, the party leader, seems almost certain to be elected president of a new super-region covering industrial northern France and Picardy – for decades a fiefdom of the left. Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, her niece, is predicted to take Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur – a traditional bastion of Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right.
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