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...even given Jospin's weakness as a candidate, it was still a shock when he got fewer votes in the first round of the election than Jean-Marie Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Front. Le Pen will now meet President Jacques Chirac--a mainstream conservative--in a runoff on May 5. The National Front's success, wrote the editor of Le Monde last week, has "wounded" and "humiliated" France. Le Pen won't become President; Chirac is all but guaranteed to win the runoff in a landslide, as many supporters of the left, holding their noses...
FRANCE Peaceful Protests In a Fierce Campaign May Day marchers had their eyes on election day as an estimated 1.3 million people took to the streets across the country to protest the presidential candidacy of the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. As center-right President Jacques Chirac appeared to be heading for a landslide victory in the second round of voting, Le Pen addressed about 10,000 of his supporters in Paris. In contrast to the peaceful gatherings in France, May Day clashes between police and a minority of demonstrators occurred in Berlin, Zurich and London...
Although Le Pen was surely helped by his opponents’ shortcomings, his success was also symptomatic of the growing support for far-right parties which has developed over the past few years in Western Europe. Jorg Haider was the first hardliner to succeed at the polls, winning his Freedom Party a place in a center-right coalition government after his strong showing in the 2000 Austrian elections. Haider’s controversial policies—revolving largely around implacable opposition to further Turkish immigration and the potential repatriation of immigrants already within Austria—have served...
However inevitable these right wing leaders view their successes as being, their victories have come against a backdrop of ever-increasing political apathy. Le Pen actually gained the same number of votes last week as he had done in the previous Presidential election; the much lower turnout simply made his percentage of the vote higher. With his demagogic pledge to be “socially to the left, economically to the right and nationally of France,” Le Pen did little more than convince more of his core supporters to turn out than the dry Jospin could attract...
...somehow managed to change me in some critical way. These are folks who have left a lasting impression but whom I have never thanked, probably because there was never an appropriate moment and most likely because it would make for a pretty awkward conversation. Well, the power of the pen can make you do crazy things, especially if FM is involved. So, here are a few of my Harvard angels...