Marine Le
Pen’s party capitalises on Paris attacks to win 27-30% of national
vote, the highest the party has ever scored in a local election
The
far-right Front National has made historic gains in the wake of the
Paris terrorist attacks, emerging as the winner in the opening round
of regional elections and coming top in half of France’s regions.
The
projected score is the highest vote that the anti-immigration,
anti-European party has ever registered in a local election and, if
the party maintains the strong lead in next week’s second round, it
could reshape the country’s political landscape.
The FN,
which pushed a hardline stance on Islam, security and national
identity, saw a poll boost in the wake of the Paris attacks three
weeks ago in which Islamic State gunmen killed 130 people at Paris
bars, the Bataclan concert hall and in a suicide bombing outside the
Stade de France.
First
estimations on Sunday showed the FN on top nationally with 27-30% of
the vote, compared with only 11% in the last regional elections in
2010. The party came top in six out 13 mainland French regions – a
historic moment for the far-right which has never before held the
leadership of a French region.
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So,
how the new jihadist barbarians are useful to the elites in our
era?
1st,
they disorientate people from the real enemy, the elites
themselves, who are the ones exclusively responsible both for the
wars and the absolute mess in the Middle East, as well as for the
new conditions based on the Greek experiment.
2nd,
they can apply further suppression measures inside the Western
societies without significant resistance, in order to justify the
elimination of - the excessively advertised in the past - civil
liberties. Progressively, no one would be allowed to protest
against austerity in the name of security from terror attacks.
3rd,
they feed extreme nationalists and fascists. The useful tool which
the elites mobilize everytime they need to distract attention away
from them. These are now quite useful to do the dirty job, which
is to get rid the "unnecessary load" of thousands of
desperate refugees, and, confront the Leftist threat which may
turn against them.
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