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...Presidential incumbent Jacques Chirac, Jospin prepared to announce his immediate resignation from French politics, saying that the strong showing of the National Front party had come “like a thunderbolt.” Yet, in many ways, that evening’s speech reflected the gravest of Jospin??s many electoral miscalculations. The growing potency and vigor of right-wing parties in Western Europe over the past few years has been strengthened by political apathy among moderate voters. Le Pen’s success was the latest in a string of ever-more-threatening triumphs...
...Front. None of these views is incorrect. Jospin is, by all accounts, an honest but dull man who has trouble inspiring confidence. A selection of seven parties split left-wing support, with three different—but similarly laughable—Trotskyist parties garnering 11 percent of the vote. Jospin??s Socialists and Chirac’s Rally for the Republic Party ran extremely lackluster campaigns. However, all of these factors cannot explain how a man who in 1987 described the Holocaust as a “minor detail of history” could garner almost 17 percent...
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