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The woman who would be president
Is France's Marine Le Pen far-right?

By Hugh Schofield

Marine Le Pen's political awakening came at the age of eight, when she survived a bombing at her family's Paris home.

Five kilograms of dynamite had been placed on the landing outside the apartment at 9 Villa Poirier. The explosion ripped open the entire front of the building. A baby in the next-door flat fell five floors and was saved by the branches of a tree.

In her autobiography, the woman who took over the leadership of France's National Front (FN) from her father describes the chaos, the smoke and debris.

She and her two sisters “were on our knees shivering, holding hands, praying with the fervour of despair… when we heard the voice of our father shouting, 'Girls, girls, are you alive?'”

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Is France's Marine Le Pen far-right?

No. She's far left.

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Is France's Marine Le Pen far-right?

No. She's far left.

France elections: What makes Marine Le Pen far right?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38321401
10 February 2017

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...in many respects Ms Le Pen is more socially liberal than much of the mainstream right - something that has caused divisions within her own party....

...Ms Le Pen argues French citizenship should be "either inherited or merited". As for illegal immigrants, they "have no reason to stay in France, these people broke the law the minute they set foot on French soil"....

...in December she upped the ante by announcing that she would end free education for the children of undocumented immigrants...

..."If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge," she said in a speech in Paris. And, more threateningly, "playtime is over"....

...Jobs, welfare, housing, schools, or any area of public provision should go to French nationals before they get to "foreigners"....

She's not far left on these topics.
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Offline Norm Lenhart

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She's a leftist...but in France, she is to the right as the French are mostly even further to the left than American Dems.

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France elections: What makes Marine Le Pen far right?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38321401
10 February 2017

She's not far left on these topics.

Those issues are Nationalistic. Her domestic policies are straight out of Marx. This is not unusual to Europe. There was a group a while back that was rabidly Nationalistic while promoting Socialist policies domestically. They were called that Natsos or something similar.

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Those issues are Nationalistic. Her domestic policies are straight out of Marx. This is not unusual to Europe. There was a group a while back that was rabidly Nationalistic while promoting Socialist policies domestically. They were called that Natsos or something similar.

Okay, I see that now.
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Those issues are Nationalistic. Her domestic policies are straight out of Marx. This is not unusual to Europe. There was a group a while back that was rabidly Nationalistic while promoting Socialist policies domestically. They were called that Natsos or something similar.
Both the terms right-wing and left-wing originally referred to Socialists.  Stalin is credited with saying that Communism is International Socialism, whereas Nazism is National Socialism--which was Stalin's way of confessing that these movements are two different "wings" of Socialism. Stalin supposedly went on to refer to Communism as the left wing of Socialism, and Nazism as the right wing thereof. 

Notice from this that the phrase right wing did not mean conservative--which the Nazis certainly were not--nor did it mean nationalistic--which the Nazis merely happened to be in contradistinction with the Communists in their respective approaches in their common quest for world domination. 

The libs (generally Commie-lite guys) eventually adopted Stalin's language of right wing to smear us patriotic conservatives as extremists, as hateful totalitarians, as veritable Nazis (which is ridiculous, of course, since we conservatives demand liberty, demand a limited constitutional government).

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Agreement with Thackney's opinion in post 2 above.

Regardless of her economic leanings, Le Pen is on the right track insofar as the French and France's future with islam is concerned.

At least she is pledging to do something other than keep treading down a road that leads to submission...