Jean
Marie Le Pen is founder and current leader of the National Front (FN), a
French nationalist
party. Le Pen is also a lawyer, a combat veteran of wars in Indochina and Algeria, a member of the European Parliament and a patriot.
40% of
French voters have voted for FN at least once.
French voters have elected thousands (not hundreds, but thousands) of FN mayors, governors, regional directors, MPs, MEP and city councilmen. Cities under FN control, such as Orange, are marked by less crime and a stronger economy.
FN draws support from all levels of
French society. There are large and active FN organizations for accountants, lawyers,
college professors, physicians, students, union members, military veterans, policemen, and school teachers. In recent elections FN has received significant support from working class voters, especially in the east and north, who formerly supported the
Communist and Socialist parties.
This success has drawn the ire of anti-
French and anti-European forces. Le Pen was blinded in one eye by a
communist. The electoral laws were changed to prevent FN representation in the National Assembly (NA). By vote volume, and by the tenets of
democracy, FN should constitute 20% of the NA rather the current 0%. FN charities which provide
hot meals and warm clothing to the homeless were prevented from their mission when a judge ruled the pork
soup provided to the destitute constituted an outrage against Jews and Muslims.
The
irony of the last item, not lost to the well-informed, is patriotic French Jews and, and to a lesser extent, patriotic French Muslims have voted for the FN. Indeed, several elected FN officials are Jewish.
What does Le Pen stand for? The French
people should receive preference for jobs, training, education and housing. Only as a truly French nation can France successfully compete with and positively influence the world.
Non-European immigrants have largely refused to assimilate, largely live (and live large) by welfare and crime, and pose a threat to the very existence of France. They are deeply unhappy in France. It is only humane they be paid to leave France.
These positions, among other FN ideas once considered impossible, are now mainstream. This positive effect on French political discourse is known as Le Penism.
Le Pen's influence has spread beyond France. Every European country now has a nationalist movement, often based on the FN model.