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Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right National Front, won an astonishing 14.4 percent of the vote in the first round. He said in a bitter statement yesterday that the traditional right was "the stupidest right in the world...
...surprise, however, was the muscular showing of Jean-Marie Le Pen, candidate of the ultra-rightist, anti-immigrant National Front. With 14.5% of the vote, Le Pen finished just behind former Premier Raymond Barre, with 16.5%, but well ahead of the once mighty Communist Party, whose candidate, Andre Lajoinie, won just 6.8% in the first round. In the process, Le Pen's movement seemed to have replaced the Communists as the major vehicle for protest voters. Le Pen thus became a durable force and pivotal arbiter of France's now divided right...
...most French citizens, Le Pen's triumph was cause for a certain amount of embarrassment and concern. Said Rumanian-born French Playwright Eugene Ionesco: "It is unacceptable and shameful for a country like France and for people like the French. Enough is enough...
...Pen, campaigning on the promise to expel France's roughly 4 million immigrants and reimpose the death penalty, had undeniable grass-roots appeal, but his support had been expected to reach no higher than 11%. Instead it mushroomed across the country, reaching more than 20% in eight metropolitan departments. The burly ex-paratrooper grabbed 28.3% of the vote in Marseilles, France's second largest city, topping all other major candidates. A total of some 4.4 million citizens supported the ultra-rightist. As the dimensions of Le Pen's breakthrough became apparent, the National Front leader declared on television, "We have...
...most explosive issue of the campaign focuses on France's immigrant population, some 4 million people, many of them North Africans. Resentment of their claims on social and employment resources has been fanned, frequently with racial undertones, by Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front. Chirac and Barre, either of whom would need Le Pen's expected 11% of next week's vote to go their way in the second round, are handling the matter with caution, calling for immigration reforms based on the recent recommendations of a high-level commission. Mitterrand favors...